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Transport Services Access Point (TSAP)

A Transport Services Access Point (TSAP) is an end-point for communication between the Transport layer (layer 4) and the Session layer in the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) reference model. Each TSAP is an address that uniquely identifies a specific instantiation of a service. TSAPs are created by concatenating the node's Network Service Access Point (NSAP) with a transport identifier, and sometimes a packet and/or protocol type.

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This was last updated in September 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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