Session Layer of OSI Model (Layer-5)

Session Layer of OSI Model

Session layer of OSI Model is designed to allow devices to establish and manage sessions so that multiple channels could be established between same terminals and hosts. Session Layer is the fifth layer in the 7-Layer OSI Model after Transport Layer. Session Layer is also called as ‘Port Layer’. The main function of Session Layer is to establish, maintain and synchronize the interaction between communicating systems and hosts like computers and servers. It allows information of different streams, originating from different sources, to be properly combined or synchronized. OSI Model divides the network communication processes into seven layers in order Read More …

OSI Model

OSI-Model

“OSI Model (Open Systems Interconnection Model) is a reference tool and a reference model for data communications in networks”. It was the first conceptual model for standardized communication in computer Network systems.   Why do we need OSI Model? We need OSI Model for solution to our multiple problems; few of them are described here. Firstly, it is a vendor neutral model. Before OSI Model, each vendor had to use its own network model to manufacture network equipment. So, one vendor’s equipment & the network was not compatible with another vendor’s equipment. Clients and buyers were forced to buy all Read More …