===== Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) =====
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**Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)** is a standard that defines how to establish and maintain a network conversation through which application programs can exchange data. TCP works with the [[ddsf:public:guidebook:06_append:glossary:i:ip]], which defines how computers send packets of data to each other.

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