- Stream:-
- Stream Oriented
- Connection Oriented
- Byte Oriented
- Character Oriented
- Control:-
- Error Control
- Flow Control
- Connection Control
- Reliable
- In order delivery
- Transmission:-
- Fast
- Multi-homing:-Multiple port connection between Sender & Receiver.
- Multi-stream
- Multi-casting
- Multi-media

- SCTP was developed to provide multimedia internet services like IP telephony etc.
- It is a connection oriented, Stream oriented, Character oriented & Byte oriented reliable protocol which provides end to end Error Control, Flow Control & Connection Control with in order delivery of data.
- It is fast like UDP because it supports multi-casting which is a fault tolerant approach which creates multiple streams known as Association. If one association fails then the data can be rerouted through other association.
- It provides full duplex services and supports multi-casting.
- The control information is known as control chunk.
- The multiple streams are identified by stream identifier.
- The data chunk with in a stream is identified by stream sequence number.
- The header size is fixed so, it is simple to process.

