Brian Ackroyd, Technology Correspondent of Asia-Pacific Satellite, explores the universe of Internet Protocol (IP) and analyses how it applies to the satellite environment. Over the last few years, communication networks all over the world have come to be dominated by the Transfer Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) standard. The TCP/IP standard has achieved this dominance, and become a de facto standard for any network, because its superiority in handling highspeed data traffic has been proved over a long period in the largest global network: the Internet.
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