Glossary of Data Communications Terms

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Term: socket
Definition: the abstraction provided by Berkeley 4.3 BSD UNIX that allows a process to access the Internet. A process opens a socket, specifies the service desired (e.g., reliable stream delivery), binds the socket to a specific destination, and then sends or receives data. While the functional characteristics remain as defined, the concept has been generalized to include processes that access networks other than Internet.

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