Research Paper on:
History and Future of TCP/IP

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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) has been in use for more than 20 years and keeps being relevant to changing environments, usually just when it has been counted as a  protocol that likely will not survive the next generation of technological advances. The truth is that even though applications, hardware and possible speeds of transmission all have increased in  capabilities and reliability, the actual mode of transmission of data across the systems largely is accomplished in same manner now as when networking was new. TCP/IPs Past  TCP/IP works under the same principles in Internet applications as it did before the existence of the Internet, which is to facilitate data transmission by "breaking  the information into smaller packets" (Venter and Eloff, 1998; p. 683), and in fact has become one of the most important of the Internet technologies today (McQuillan, 1994). Its  limitations have been in its clumsiness in handling the increased demands of the audio and video transfer for which it never was fully intended.  By 1994, about 30 million Ethernet ports had been installed, and there are nearly as many direct or indirect users of the Internet, which relies on TCP/IP" (McQuillan, 1994;  p. 10). Many large businesses also continue to rely on their old SNA (systems network architecture) for crucial applications (Passmore, 1997) as real or potential hybridization of networks continues  to be important to many organizations operations. Ethernet is as "old" a technology as is TCP/IP also in widespread use, but three technical  barriers prevented it from receiving widespread exposure or adoption on traditional Ethernet LAN systems: insufficient bandwidth, nondeterministic behavior, and the inability to prioritize traffic. There is a growing