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Technical Office Protocol
15 Sep 2006
WORD - Technical Office Protocol (TOP), also called Technical and Office Protocol, is a set of protocols intended for networks that perform distributed information processing in business offices. TOP uses the Ethernet access method ...

layer 2
29 Jul 2001
WORD - Layer 2 refers to the Data Link layer of the commonly-referenced multilayered communication model, Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). The Data Link layer is concerned with moving data across the physical links in the ...

Session layer

WORD - In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model, the Session layer (sometimes called the "port layer") manages the setting up and taking down of the association between two communicating end points ...

physical layer

WORD - In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model, the physical layer supports the electrical or mechanical interface to the physical medium. For example, this layer determines how to put a stream of bits from ...

OSI
29 Jan 2003
WORD - Also see OSI Reference Model illustrated. OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) is a standard description or "reference model" for how messages should be transmitted between any two points in a telecommunication network. Its ...

Network layer
27 Jul 2001
WORD - In the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model, the Network layer knows the address of the neighboring nodes in the network, packages output with the correct network address information, selects routes and ...

FTAM
01 Aug 2006
WORD - File Transfer Access Method (FTAM), also known as File Transfer Access and Management or Electronic File Transfer Access Method (EFTAM), is an ISO standard (8571) that specifies methods of transfering files between ...

Transport Services Access Point
31 May 2004
WORD - 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 ...

TP0-TP4
02 Oct 2002
WORD - TP0-TP4 (transport protocols 0 to 4) are the five protocols in the Transport layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model for telecommunication. The Transport layer manages end-to-end control and error checking to ...

Transport Service Access Point
10 Jun 2002
WORD - In networking, the Transport Service Access Point (TSAP) is part of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) IP addressing scheme. It identifies the Network Service Access Point (NSAP) between the session layer and the network ...

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