Cisco prefers UDP for Webex voice and video media. When media falls back to TCP, retransmission and receiver buffering show up as increased latency and jitter that degrade call quality.

Checked 2026-09-25

For media streams, this behavior manifests itself as increased latency/jitter, which in turn affects the media quality experienced by the call's participants.
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Webex
Subsystem
media transport
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback,
  title  = {Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback},
  note   = {Source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-webex-tcp-fallback, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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