TCP/IP

IPTO's solution to the "Tower of Babel" problem was to introduce into a new protocol—i.e., a set of communication rules—called TCP/IP.

TCP/IP is actually a suite of protocols, the two principal ones being:

• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and
• Internet Protocol (IP).
  

This chapter was written by Jeff Nyhoff and Joel Adams. Copy editing by Nancy Zylstra
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