What is a protocol?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-09-01

What is a protocol?
Protocols are how networked computers communicate. But unlike human speech, computer communication has to be highly structured and extremely well-specified.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.