what is a protocol?
A protocol is a standard used to define a method of exchanging data over a computer network such as local area network, Internet, etc. Each protocol has its own method of how data is formatted when sent and what to do with it once received, how that data is compressed or how to check for errors in data
A protocol is a standard used to define a method of exchanging data over a computer network such as local area network, Internet, etc. Each protocol has its own method of how data is formatted when sent and what to do with it once received, how that data is compressed or how to check for errors in data
these are the different type of protocols and what they stand for
- WIFI/WIMAX Protocols
- Bluetooth protocol
- Fibre Channel network protocols
- Internet Protocol Suite or TCP/IP model or TCP/IP stack
- OSI protocols family of information exchange standards developed jointly by the ISO and the ITU-T
- Routing protocols
- List of IP protocol numbers, protocol numbers used in the Protocol field of the IPv4 header and the Next Header field of IPv6 header
- Yahoo! Messenger, underlying protocol used by the Yahoo messenger
- RTPS protocol, an interoperability protocol
- SSH Secure Shell
- SMB Server Message Block, one version of which was also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System)
- FTP File Transfer Protocol
- SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- TCP Transmission Control Protocol
- Telnet Telephone Network
- HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- HTTPs Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- POP Post Office Protocol
- HTCPCP Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol
- MTP Media Transfer Protocol
- SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol
- SSL Secure Socket Layer
- TLS Transport Layer Security
- E6 Ethernet globalization protocols
- NTP Network time protocol
- PPP Point to Point Protocol
- NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol
- IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
- Bitcoin Protocol Protocol to transfer value on the web