August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 14m
English
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260 Practical TCP/IP and Ethernet Networking
18.4.3 Electronic mail
This does not require instantaneous responses from the recipient and hence satellite
communications would be well suited to this form of communications.
18.4.4 Information retrieval
The transmission of computer files requires a considerable level of integrity (i.e. no
errors) and hence a reliable guaranteed protocol such as TCP has to be used on top of the
IP protocol. This means that if a particularly fast response is required and a number of
small transfers are used to communicate the data; satellite communications will not be a
very effective means of operation.
18.4.5 ...