supplies [plural] : things (such as food, equipment, fuel, etc.) that are needed for a particular purpose and that will be used by a particular person or group. 1  They took a month's worth of supplies on the camping trip. 2  The town is in need of basic medical supplies. 3  a store that sells art/office/cleaning supplies.
The last and largest section covers end-user applications and application protocols, including general file transfer, electronic mail, Usenet, the World Wide Web, interactive protocols (such as Telnet) and administration utilities. 1  Name Systems and TCP/IP Name Registration and Name Resolution.
Although many TCP/IP application layer protocols exist, the TCP/IP transport layer includes a smaller number of protocols. The two most commonly used transport layer protocols are the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Transport layer protocols provide services to the application layer protocols that reside one layer higher in the TCP/IP model.