
You hear so much about protocols. To the average person this may seem like French or at least a language you don’t understand.
I will attempt to simplify it here. It is a language or process that uses certain rules. It is the kind of language needed to communicate between one device and another, one computer or another or even one network and another. It is the process need to accomplish a specific task. EXAMPLE: The phone rings, you pick up the receiver (with a cell phone you maybe just flip open the cover). You normally say hello and the conversation begins. If the person doesn’t answer you know there is a problem and you use a certain process to solve it.
In networks very stringent rules must be followed for things to work. A network card must know how to talk to other network cards in order to pass on information. Operating system must know how to talk to networks cards etc.
Some examples of protocols are TCP/IP,FTP,IPX/SPX along with many others.
If you plan to work with networks at all you must understand what a protocol is and which ones work together. For example: if you want to send large amounts of data to or from a server you may want to know what FTP is. This stands for File Transfer Protocol and is widely used to move files to and from servers and of other data transfer points.
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