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...well, providing the technology that makes competition possible. The relevant hocus-pocus is the "Internet protocol," which is not the title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers...
Like letters at the post office, each packet is individually addressed. IP tells the network how to read the packets and where to send them. Unlike a traditional phone call, which sets up a circuit between two phones (think of the 1930s operator plugging wires into jacks), IP allows phone carriers simply to throw the packets onto a network, where they will be sorted and delivered by any one of thousands of machines (called routers), just as if they were postcards at a post office...
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