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The unit of data, or packet, transmitted in a TCP/IP network. Each datagram contains source and destination addresses and data. See TCP/IP and UDP.


datagram - A self-contained, independent entity of data carrying sufficient information to be routed from the source to the destination computer without reliance on earlier exchanges between this source and destination computer and the transporting network.

See also connectionless, frame, packet.

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Delivers a solution with no practical distance limitations since IP datagrams can travel over the global IP network
A new message segmentation package is also available, which greatly simplifies the transmission of large packets over transports that do not support message segmentation such as the commonly used User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
User datagram protocol (UDP) is another option for layer 4 transport.
 
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