February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
387 pages
7h 36m
English
Service access points (SAPs) are OSI addresses and identifiers of OSI entities, such as an application that resides in layer 7, or a protocol that resides in layer 3. Figure A-8 illustrates these concepts.

The identifier idea is straight forward; it simply identifies something in a machine. Unfortunately, SAPs can be confusing because they can be used in more than one way. Just keep in mind that they are used to identify a process (in practice, a software module) in a layer.
We must defer to the OSI Model in its description of the SAP. The Model states that: an (N + 1)-entity ...
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