The layers, and what they represent, are as follows: Layer 7: Application. The Application Layer in the OSI model is the layer that is the “closest to the end user”.

The Data Link Layer is one of my favorite layers of the OSI Model. Like a father who loves ALL of his children equally, but in different ways, I also love the other layers, but Layer 2 will always ...

As a matter of fact, when I started writing this post I titled it “Layer 4 of the OSI Model ... Data center expertise: Hard to come by, harder to validate. Mar 29, 2012 4 mins.