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CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
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UDP 
User Datagram Protocol 
A networking communications protocol that works with IP to send data from one computer to another. However, unlike TCP/IP, UDP does not divide a message into packets and reassemble it at the other end; it depends on the communications program to do that. This speeds up processing time.


   
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