TCP/IP Definition & Meaning

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computer networks, the main protocol for the internet.

TCP/IP

Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A suite of protocols for communication between computers, specifying standards for transmitting data over networks and used as the basis for standard Internet protocols.

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Origin of TCP/IP¹

First recorded in 1980–85

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Without the TCP/IP protocol, for instance, we wouldn’t have the internet.

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It is more helpful to describe it similarly to defining the internet as TCP/IP, the internet protocol suite.

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You are not talking about replacing SSL or TCP/IP, the transport layer protocols.

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Some of the vulnerable TCP/IP code is two decades old; some of it is no longer supported, Costante added.

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Some of the vulnerable TCP/IP code is two decades old; some of it no longer supported, Costante added.

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