But How can one type of network communicate with the others ?
TCP/IP Protocol is a kind of esperanto




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The TCP/IP protocol has the great advantage that it can bring together different kinds of physical networks such as ethernet, token-ring, and ATM. TCP/IP plays the role of a common language they can all understand, thus making transmission across different kinds of networks possible. This is how the internet works and why it is possible to communicate different type of computers which are attached to different type of networks