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TCP/IP ASSIGNMENT 3 LOCAL AREA NETWORKS ITC 253 Word Count: 4042 words Executive Summary TCP/IP has evolved to become the standard protocol used for interoperability among many different types of computers. This interoperability is a primary advantage of TCP/IP. Most networks support TCP/IP as a protocol, which serves as an internetworking protocol for routing. Designed to be routable, robust and functionally efficient, TCP/IP was designed by the United States Department of Defense as a set of wide area network protocols. Its purpose was to maintain communication links between sites in different parts of the United States. Benefits of using TCP/IP are vast and they include its recognition as an open protocol de facto standard for the Internet, connectivity for a range of dissimilar operating systems and a scalable, cross-platform client server architecture to meet future trends. Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 TCP/IP: An Introduction 3 TCP/IP: An Overview 5 TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol 9 TCP/IP: Internet Protocol 11 Glossary of Terms 15 Bibliography 16 TCP/IP: An Introduction The birth of Transmission...

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