TCP/IP
Also known as:
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
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IP is responsible for addressing all computers on the Internet to allow them to find one another universally. TCP is a protocol for establishing a virtual circuit connection between any two computers on the Internet. TCP handles all the inconsistencies inherent to a networked system as large as the Internet, allowing technology which uses TCP to treat the connection as if it is flawless (although possibly slow). TCP handles resending lost transmissions, sorting mixed up transmissions and rejecting duplicate transmissions. An alternative to TCP is UDP.
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