Layer 1: Physical At the bottom of our OSI model we have the Physical Layer, which represents the electrical and physical representation of the system. This can include everything from the cable ...

Thanks for your comments on my first EtherGeek post on understanding the OSI Model. I especially enjoyed ... of the network connection. The Physical Layer includes cable specs, pin-out patterns ...

The physical layer also defines the direction of transmission between two devices: simplex, half-duplex, or full duplex. While it may seem like a lot, taking the time to frame your thoughts about ...

A VLAN is a local area network that, although it has all the attributes of a network at the logic level, does not exist as such on a physical ... equivalent layers in the OSI model, deals ...

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 ...

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 ...