The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms ...

and the layered approach lets different protocols be swapped in and out to accommodate different network architectures. For more details about each layer, see OSI model. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

The User Datagram Protocol is a protocol used to transmit data over the internet. It is connectionless and does not guarantee delivery of your data, but uses less overhead. This term was viewed ...

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, is a protocol that is most often used by Internet Service Providers to allow you to send out email from your local computer. This term was viewed 3,403 times.