The Internet Protocol
How is the information sent?
- Information -- email, web pages, phone calls, everything sent over the Internet -- is broken up into small units, called packets
- Packets contain an IP address, a sequence number and some actual information, a part of the whole message
- This scheme is called the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP
- The packets are sent independently, usually taking different routes, and reassembled at the destination to reconstruct the original message