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What are Networking protocols ?

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It is a set of rules that determines how data is transmitted between devices in same network.
It allows connected devices to communicate with each other, regardless of any differences in their structure, design or internal processes.
Network protocols are the reason you can easily communicate with people all over the world, and it plays a critical role in modern digital communications.

There are various types of protocols that support a compassionate and major role in communicating with different devices across the network, they are:

Transmission Control Protocol

It is used for communicating over a network and becomes a popular communication protocol.
It separates any message into series of pockets where sent from source to destination and there it gets reassembled at the destination.

Internet Protocol

It is mostly used with TCP and designed explicitly as addressing protocol.
In network IP addresses in packets help in routing them through different nodes until it reaches the destination system.

User Datagram Protocol

It is substitute communication protocol to TCP implemented primarily for creating low-latency and loss-tolerating linking between different applications.

Post Office Protocol

Post Office Protocol is designed for receiving incoming E-mails.

Simple Mail Transport Protocol

Simple Mail Transport Protocol is designed to distribute and send outgoing E-mail.

File Transfer Protocol

It allows users to transfer files like text files, multimedia files, program files and documents from one machine to another.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

In this HTML tags are used for creating links and it is designed for transferring a hypertext among two or more systems.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

It is a standard protocol to secure the communication among two computers one using the browser and other fetching data from web server.
HTTPS is used for transferring data between the client browser (request) and the web server (response) in the encrypted format.

Telnet

It is designed for connecting one system with another and here the connecting process is termed as remote login.
Here the local computer system request for connection and remote computer system accepts the connection.

Gopher

It is a collection of rules implemented for retrieving, searching as well as displaying documents from isolated sites and also works on the client/server principle.