Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a template for building and using a network and its resources. The Open Systems Interconnection Committee was created in the 1970s with the goal of creating a new communication standard for networking. The OSI Reference Model was the result of that effort: a theoretical model of networking with interchangeable layers. It is a reference model that is still in use today and acts as both a reference model and an effective means of teaching network communications. The beauty of it is that you can design technology for any one of the layers without worrying about how the other layers ...
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