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Telnet (sometimes stylized TELNET) is a client-server application protocol that provides access to virtual terminals of remote systems on local area networks or the Internet. It is a protocol for bidirectional 8-bit communications. Its main goal was to connect terminal devices and terminal-oriented processes.

Not to be confused with Telenet. Telnet (sometimes stylized TELNET[1]) is a client-server application protocol that provides access to virtual terminals of remote systems on local area networks or the Internet.[2] It is a protocol for bidirectional 8-bit communications. Its main goal was to connect terminal devices and terminal-oriented processes.[1] The name "Telnet" refers to two things: a protocol specifying how two parties are to communicate and a software application that implements the protocol as a service.[2] User data is interspersed in-band with Telnet control information in an…

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