Lokinet also provides the benefit of being protocol-agnostic β while competing onion routers operate on the transport layer and are only able to carry TCP traffic, Lokinet operates on the network layer and is therefore able to onion-route any IP-based protocol: TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc. In plainer terms, this means Lokinet can relay real-time voice and video calls, video streams, and other high-bandwidth content which simply can't be routed over other onion routers.