The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model ... data to the user. Oddly enough, applications themselves do not reside at the application layer. Instead the layer facilitates communication through ...

A network process passing through the OSI stack is atomic ... Part of the magic that happens in the OSI model is that each layer keeps the various data flows sorted and everything gets to the right ...

I like to think of the transport layer as the layer of the OSI Model that enables more interesting traffic. While we network engineers may love a lot of the simpler uses of the IP protocol and ...

First, and foremost, the OSI ... model. There is no actual OSI software. It has been around since about 1980, and it is based upon recommendations from the ITU-T and the ISO, which developed it to ...

1). 1. In the OSI model, data flows down the transmit layers, over the physical link, and then up through the receive layers. The transmitting computer software gives the data to be transmitted to ...

A couple posts ago, we talked about Layer 1 of the OSI Model — the Physical Layer. Today, we’ll start our climb up the Model with a visit to Layer 2, the Data Link Layer. The Data Link Layer ...