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Fault tolerance was a major focus of the intitial design of the internet because the serial data connections that formed the backbone of the Internet were noisy and subject to bit errors, both single and burst, because they often used telephone lines, and various techniques were developed to detect/retransmit or detect/correct errors.

Data integrity was and is paramount, and most protection is provided at layer four (transport layer), although much work has been done recently to enhance layer 2 (network layer) and layer 1 (physical layer).

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