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Transmission Control Protocol

principal protocol used to stream data across an IP network
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Transmission Control Protocol

Summary

Transmission Control Protocol is a computer network protocol[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of computer_network_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,438 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Transmission Control Protocol's image is recorded as Tcp-handshake.svg[3].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's instance of is recorded as computer network protocol[4].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's instance of is recorded as de facto standard[5].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's subclass of is recorded as data exchange[6].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's part of is recorded as Internet protocol suite[7].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Commons category is recorded as Transmission Control Protocol[8].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07hzk[9].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Transmission Control Protocol[10].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Commons gallery is recorded as Transmission Control Protocol[11].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's PSH ID is recorded as 12376[12].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's described by source is recorded as RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)[13].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's described by source is recorded as RFC 7323: TCP Extensions for High Performance[14].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tcp[15].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://security.stackexchange.com/tags/tcp[16].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's has characteristic is recorded as connection-oriented communication[17].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's has characteristic is recorded as network reliability[18].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's uses is recorded as Internet Protocol[19].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's uses is recorded as Ethernet[20].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's uses is recorded as handshaking[21].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's BabelNet ID is recorded as 02405887n[22].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Treccani ID is recorded as tcp[23].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Quora topic ID is recorded as TCP-IP[24].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's ITU/ISO/IEC object ID is recorded as 1.3.6.1.2.1.6[25].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as TCP[26].
  • Transmission Control Protocol's Kaitai Struct format gallery ID is recorded as tcp_segment[27].

Body

Publication

Transmission Control Protocol's part of is recorded as Internet protocol suite[7].

Why It Matters

Transmission Control Protocol ranks in the top 1% of computer_network_protocol entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,438 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . RFC 1213: Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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