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Explain the purpose of the Internet Protocol (IP)?

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Question added by Maalik Muhamed , Deputy Mill Manager , AZANIA GROUP OF COMPANYS
Date Posted: 2014/05/09
Asif ahmed Syed
by Asif ahmed Syed , Lead SharePoint Application Developer , International Center for Sports Security

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the method or rules by which data is sent from one computer to another in the network. Each computer (host) on the network has at least one IP address that uniquely identifies it from all other computers in the network.

When you send or receive data (for example, an e-mail note or a Web page), the message gets divided into packets. Each of these packets contains both the sender's Internet address and the receiver's address. Any packet is sent first to a gateway computer that understands a small part of the network. The gateway computer reads the destination address and forwards the packet to an adjacent gateway that in turn reads the destination address and so forth across the Internet until one gateway recognizes the packet as belonging to a computer within its immediate domain. That gateway then forwards the packet directly to the computer whose address is specified.

Asim Ali
by Asim Ali , SAP HCM Support Officer , Al Tilal Steel Company Limited

The main purpose of IP is to provide a significant addressing technique to a network and its elements. The process of addressing employs that each node within the network must have a distinct address (or IP address) for individual communication sessions. During inter-network communication sessions, IP is used to provide a single address to entire network as well, which is useful when two nodes from different networks try to communicate with each other. This can be considered the foundation of the "network of networks" that is the Internet.

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Arif Mohammad Abdul
by Arif Mohammad Abdul , Project coordinator for the Department of CSE in TKR College of Engineering and Technology , Engineering and Technology

wireless communication

Mohammad Waheed Saeed
by Mohammad Waheed Saeed , IT Support Officer , Habib Bank Ltd

IP Addresses were designed so the computer in a group can be ATTND (or called) by their specific identity. of course its the same with humans.

 

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Basel Abumwis
by Basel Abumwis , Head of Customer Service , The National Bank

IP has many purposes:

1- Addressing: IP gives uniqe addresses to a network and its elements.

2-IP interconnects different networks with different technologies.

3-IP classifes networks; class A, class B, and class C.

4-Routing so that networks can communicate between each other through IP.

Afsheen Atif
by Afsheen Atif

Short for Internet Protocol address, an IP address is an address of a computer or other network device on a network using TCP/IP. For example, the number "69.72.169.241" is an example of such an address. These addresses are similar to an addresses used on a house and its purpose is to allows data to reach the appropriate destination on a network and the Internet.

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