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AppleTalk

AppleTalk is a set of local area network communication protocols originally created for Apple computers. An AppleTalk...

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network can support up to 32 devices and data can be exchanged at a speed of 230.4 kilobits per second (Kbps). Devices can be as much as 1,000 feet apart. AppleTalk's Datagram Delivery Protocol corresponds closely to the Network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communication model.

This was last updated in June 2007

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OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection)

Session layer

session control protocol (SCP)

ITU X.225 (ISO 8327)

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