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A 5 page paper discussing Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), an 'old' technology that is finding new life. There are great hopes for the public Internet in terms of attainment of low-latency delivery and minimal packet drop, but achieving those likely also will end favorable views of any hybrid network between TCP/IP and ATM, or even the old SNA configurations that are dated but still operational. Greater availability of ISDN is another factor that will work against such a hybrid and more toward IP. Regardless of personal bias, it appears that the connected world is moving more toward IP communications. The interim points between should be able to provide a rather seamless transition. Bibliography lists 7 sources. ksTCP-IP.rtf
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File: CC6_ksTCP-IP.rtf
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it has been counted as a protocol that likely will not survive the next generation of technological advances. The truth is that even though applications, hardware and possible speeds
of transmission all have increased in capabilities and reliability, the actual mode of transmission of data across the systems largely is accomplished in same manner now as when networking was
new. TCP/IP works under the same principles in Internet applications as it did before the existence of the Internet, which is to facilitate data transmission by " breaking the information
into smaller packets" (Venter and Eloff, 1998; p. 683), and in fact has become one of the most important of the Internet technologies today (McQuillan, 1994). Its limitations have
been in its clumsiness in handling the increased demands of the audio and video transfer for which it never was fully intended. McQuillan (1994) says that "The three most important
words in networking today are Ethernet, TCP/IP and ATM, but to think of them as mere technologies misses how pervasive their influence has become. About 30 million Ethernet ports have
been installed, and there are nearly as many direct or indirect users of the Internet, which relies on TCP/IP" (p. 10). Many large businesses also continue to rely on
their old SNA (systems network architecture) for crucial applications (Passmore, 1997) as real or potential hybridization of networks continues to be important to many organizations operations. Ethernet is as "old"
a technology as is TCP/IP also in widespread use. The lack its use to supply networked multimedia and real-time applications such as videoconferencing has not been due to lack of
interest but rather three technical barriers that have prevented these services from receiving widespread exposure or adoption on traditional Ethernet LAN systems: insufficient bandwidth, nondeterministic behavior, and the inability
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