ALSO CALLED: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol, TCP IP, Transport Control Protocol, and Protocol TCP/IP DEFINITION:What is TCP/IP? TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet. It can also be used as a communications protocol in a private network (either an intranet or an extranet). When you are set up with
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TCP/IP DEFINITION (continued): direct access to the Internet, your computer is provided with a copy of the TCP/IP program just as every other computer that you may send messages to or get information from also has a copy of TCP/IP.
TCP/IP is a two-layer program. The higher layer, Transmission Control Protocol, manages the assembling of a message or file into smaller packets that are transmitted over the Internet and received by a TCP layer that reassembles the packets into the original TCP/IP definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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