Network Layer
OSI Model, including its 7 Layer Introduction
As the importance of computers grows, vendors recognize the need for networking with them. They produced a variety of protocols whose specifications were not made public. Hence, each vendor had different ways of networking computers, and these ways were not compatible with each other. This means that the computers of one vendor could not be...
The Network Layer: Functions and Protocols Explained
The network layer, Layer 3 of the OSI model, is responsible for one core job: delivering packets from a source device to a destination device across multiple interconnected networks. It defines the packet structure and the processing needed to carry data from one host to another, routing that data through whatever intermediate networks stand between...