Abstract: Described is a method for switching Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) data streams for a fast delivery of voice, video, image or data, or a combination thereof, from one (or more) system(s) to one (or more) other system(s) based on inventor's TCP switching design. The proposed TCP switching system further provides for the consolidation of multiple data protocols in the conventional five-layer stack of Internet protocols, namely, Physical (layer 1), Data Link (layer 2), Network (layer 3), Transport (layer 4), and Application (layer 5). In this patent, the organization of this modified TCP, called the Fast TCP protocol, and the algorithm for establishing communications between any two or more end-systems through any number of intermediate TCP switches, called the Fast TCP switches, are described. The method of TCP switching is installed in the end-systems and intermediate Fast TCP switches to provide medium-independent communications.