Provides illusion of point to point connection to an application running
on another machine
Each endpoint can regard a TCP/IP connection as a bi-directional stream
of bytes between two endpoints
Application can detect when other end of connection has gone away/disconnected
What You Send Is What You Get... in the Right Order
packets are always received by the receptor application, and in the
order they were emitted by the emitter application
Use...
Acknowledgements and retransmits data
Data Checksum
Flow Control Procedure
TCP/IP... Automatically takes care of dividing the
sent data into the network packets for transmission, and it automatically
extracts data from inbound packets, discards duplicate packets, and inserts
the data in the correct order into the byte stream that the application reads...