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Transmission Control Protocol

principal protocol used to stream data across an IP network
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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 (14,089 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: de facto standard[3]
  • Subclass of: data exchange[4]
  • Part of: Internet protocol suite[5]
  • Commons category: Transmission Control Protocol[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Transmission Control Protocol[7]
  • Commons gallery: Transmission Control Protocol[8]
  • Described by source: RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)[9], RFC 7323: TCP Extensions for High Performance[10]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/tcp[11], https://security.stackexchange.com/tags/tcp[12]
  • Has characteristic: connection-oriented communication[13], network reliability[14]
  • Uses: Internet Protocol[15], Ethernet[16], handshaking[17]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18]
  • OSI Model layer location: transport layer[19]

Why It Matters

Transmission Control Protocol has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iana.org. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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