Internet Protocol
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The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork.

IP is a network layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite and is encapsulated in a data link layer protocol (e.g., Ethernet). As a lower layer protocol, IP provides the service of communicable unique global addressing amongst computers.

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