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Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A protocol (set of communication rules) that allows corporations to extend their own corporate network through private "tunnels" over the public Internet.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

acronym
PPTP
plural
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocols
possessive
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol's
pluralpossessive
Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocols'