Transmission control protocol

Patent Granted | name = Transmission Control Protocol | image = | caption = | standard = RFC 675 RFC 793 RFC 1122 RFC 2581 RFC 5681 | developer = Internet Engineering Task Force | introdate = December 1974 | industry = LAN, WAN, Internet | connector = | hardware = Mobile phones, Personal computers, Laptop computers | range = }} The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite (IP), and is so common that the entire suite is often called TCP/IP. TCP provides reliable, ordered and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between programs running on computers connected to a local area network, intranet or the public Internet. It resides at the transport layer.