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Meaning of TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL

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 Definition: [n]  a protocol developed for the internet to get data from one network device to another; "TCP uses a retransmission strategy to insure that data will not be lost in transmission"
 
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 Synonyms: TCP
 
 See Also: communications protocol, protocol, TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol

 

 

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(TCP) The most common transport layer protocol used on Ethernet and the Internet. It was developed by DARPA.

TCP is the connection-oriented protocol built on top of Internet Protocol (IP) and is nearly always seen in the combination TCP/IP (TCP over IP). It adds reliable communication and flow-control and provides full-duplex, process-to-process connections.

TCP is defined in STD 7 and RFC 793.

User Datagram Protocol is the other, connectionless, protocol that runs on top of IP.

 
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