Internet Protocol

What is Internet Protocol?

The Internet Protocol (IP), a protocol, or set of rules, for routing and addressing packets of data. So that they can travel across networks and arrive at the correct destination. Data traversing the Internet divided into smaller pieces, called packets. IP information, attached to each packet, and this information helps routers to send packets to the right place. Every device or domain that connects to the Internet assigned an IP address. And as packets directed to the IP address attached to them, data arrives where it needed.

Once the packets arrive at their destination, they handled differently, depend on which transport protocol used in combination with IP. The most common transport protocols are TCP and UDP.

The Internet...allows [us] at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control.  

Permitted an ever growing number of remote networks to connect to each other and ultimately mature into the internet. In essence, TCP and IP"layered." The higher (TCP)layer concerns itself with dividing files or messages into smaller clunks, or "packets," for transmission, and reassembling received packets into their original form. The lower (IP) layer deals primarily with addressing and routing each packet so that it gets to the proper destination. The routes via which the parts of each messages travel may well be different to each other. It is a bit like sending the pages of a book separately, via different routes, to an address at which they are them are then reassembled.

What is an IP Address?

                                

The IP in IP address stands for internet protocol. That term describes the set of rules or processes that determine how the internet works. In particular, it governs how data sent over the Internet from ne device or network to another through a search engine. The address of the term is a little more straight forward. It's the unique number used to identify every device and networks that's connected to the internet. Where your home address includes a street and a number. You IP address is usually mode up of a string of numerals separated by periods. It's easy to think of the IP address as your website's destination for the traffic that's coming to visit you.

How Do IP Address Work?

       

For the Internet to work the way it does, different devices and networks all need a way to communicate with one another. While we, humans, gives our devices names (think: Suzy's iphone or Joe's Compter) and use domain names to access websites.

Every device that connects to te internet is hardwired to include TCP/IP (transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), the communication system that dictates all the rules and processes by which devices are connected to the internet and share data with each other. That's their language, and these unique identifier numbers are a part of how they understand and communicate with each other.

Writer: Mr. Krishan Kumar Saini 

Today we have learnt Basics about Internet Protocol. Hope this lesson is helpful for you.