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A protocol suite (or protocol family) is a set of communication protocols which are intended to work together, as a hierarchy of components, to produce the desired overall functionality.
An example is the TCP/IP family, which includes application protocols such as HTTP (the protocol used by the WWW), and underneath them the reliable byte stream protocol TCP, which in turn depends on the unreliable datagram carriage protocol IP.
