The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks.
It is named from two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first two networking protocols defined in this standard.
Today's IP networking represents a synthesis of several developments that began to evolve in the 1960s and...
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