Several protocol suites are designed to provide access to a wide variety of content services distributed throughout a content network.

The protocol suite is designed as three conceptual layers, which correspond closely to the lower three layers of the seven-layer OSI model.

One area of evolution for Ethernet is to add extensions to the existing protocol suite to provide reliability without requiring the complexity of TCP.

DLNA is a protocol suite providing a wide array of functionality for networked consumer electronics devices.

Instead they use a set of cooperating protocols, sometimes called a protocol family or protocol suite.

The systems both make use of the same protocol suite.

The horizontal protocols are layered protocols and all belong to the protocol suite.

Encapsulation is usually aligned with the division of the protocol suite into layers of general functionality.

(Technically, the name "PUP" only refers to the internetwork-level protocol, but it is also applied to the whole protocol suite.)

A group of protocols designed to work together are known as a protocol suite; when implemented in software they are a protocol stack.