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Feb 10, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Transmission Control Protocol, Transport Control Protocol DEFINITION: TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a set of rules (protocol) used along with the Internet Protocol (IP) to send data in the form of message units between computers over the Internet.While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the individual units of data (called packets) that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet.For … Definition continues below.
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Dissolving Distance: Silver Peak’s Technology Overview sponsored by Silver Peak WHITE PAPER: How does WAN Op work to maximize bandwidth, overcome congestion, autocorrect for out-of-order packets, reduce application and protocol chattiness, and, most magical of all, mitigate the negative impact of latency caused by the sheer physics of distance? Posted: 01 Feb 2012 \| Published: 01 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Bandwidth Management \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Security \| Networking \| QOS \| Security \| SSL \| TCP \| WAN

Three Easy Ways to Achieve and Understand WAN Acceleration with TCP Applications sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: Software developers write code to power applications that drive today's businesses. Whether you are looking at ubiquitous applications such as Microsoft Word or your own in-house software, chances are that they are not very WAN-friendly. The focus of this paper is to highlight the TCP protocol's shortcomings for WAN transmission purposes. Posted: 12 Feb 2010 \| Published: 12 Feb 2010 TOPICS: Mobile Device Management \| Mobile Workers \| Remote Office Connectivity \| Scripting \| TCP \| TCP/IP \| WAN \| WAN Hardware \| Wireless Networks \| Wireless Security

Using Syslog Effectively for Security Troubleshooting sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the numerous ways that syslog messages can be used to enhance the secure deployment of an infrastructure of equipment from Cisco®. Syslog can not only be an essential auditing tool for network and administrative events, but also can be an effective troubleshooting tool. Posted: 25 Jan 2010 \| Published: 25 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Access Control \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Network Management \| Network Monitoring Software \| Reporting Software \| TCP \| Troubleshooting \| VPN

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TCP DEFINITION (continued): … example, when an HTML file is sent to you from a Web server, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) program layer in that server divides the file into one or more packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the IP program layer. Although each packet has the same destination IP address, it may get routed differently through the network. At the other end (the client program in your computer), TCP reassembles the individual packets and waits until they have arrived to forward them to you as a single file.TCP is known as a connection-oriented protocol, which means that …
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