TCP and TCP/IP

TCP – TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL

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TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) Originally, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn designed TCP to provide reliable data transmission between remote hosts communicating over a packet-switched network. Before the invention of TCP, data transmission over packet-switched network infrastructures proved somewhat unreliable. The quality of delivery (or lack of reliability), different media types, and the potential for congestion […]