2.1 Transport

All qWave messages, except for probe messages, are sent over TCP/IP.

Probe messages are sent over UDP/IP. These messages carry time-sensitive information.

Status messages are sent by the sink device to the initiator device in response to one or more probe messages sent by the initiator device. Each status message MUST be represented using only one TCP data stream.

A device implementing the qWave initiator role MUST listen to UDP port number 2177. A device implementing the qWave sink role MUST listen to TCP port number 2177, as well as UDP port number 2177.