ABSTRACT
The kingpin of all of IT communication technologies is the network. Fortunately, we live at a time when there is one predominant network and it is based on the Internet Protocol (IP). Gone are the days when IP and AppleTalk and IBM’s SNA and Novell’s IPX all competed for the same air. Gone are the days when clumsy protocol translators were required to move a file between two sites. Yes, gone are the days of network chaos and incompatibility. Welcome IP and its associated protocols as the world standard of communications networks. Without IP there would be no Internet as we know it.
