In the event of failure, the physical path of an RTP connection can be automatically switched. A session is then rerouted as the RTP connection is restored over a new path that sidesteps a broken node or link. By using RTP's error recovery, data in the network that may have been lost during the failure can be salvaged.
Instead of resending entire packets of data during a network failure, Rapid Transfer Protocol only re-sends corrupted or missing packets of data. This functionality improves network performance.
In high speed networks, data packets may reach their destination out of sequence. RTP will put the data packets back in sequential order at the endpoint of the transmission