Switches / Hubs. 1  Experts: In a cisco network, what is the difference between a vlan and a bridge group. 2  The main difference is that VLAN dills with nodes on your LAN, bridge dills with networks: VLAN is a group of nodes on one or more networks behaves as if they are on the same subnet.
The TCP/IP model (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is a descriptive framework for the Internet Protocol Suite of computer network protocols. DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defense, created it in the 1970s.
FTP [edit]. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture.