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Using the OSI network model

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Using the OSI network model

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- [Voiceover] Hi, this is Martin Guidry, and welcome back to another edition of Building Your Technology Skills. This week, we're going to talk about the OSI Network Model. The full name of the OSI Network Model is actually Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model. It was created when two standards organizations merged some projects they had been working on previously. The two organizations are the International Organization for Standardization, and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultive Committee. So these two organizations together created what we now know as the OSI Model. The OSI Network Model is used to design networks, to troubleshoot networks, to discuss the functionality of different pieces of a network, and to compare and contrast two different networks. The model contains seven layers. Each layer has a number and a name. And they're almost always written with layer seven on top and layer one on the bottom. So, starting from the bottom, we have layer one…

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