EDN

The Seven Faces of the OSI Network Model: Part 2

The Open System Interconnect (OSI) network model, referred to by many as simply a stack, is in fact a well-designed, layered architecture for efficient intersystem and intrasystem communications. In ...
Ars Technica

OSI 7 - layer model in application troubleshooting

Could anyone help find authoritative online sources and /or otherwise articulate on why it makes sense to go from the “top down” in the OST 7 -- layer model, instead of “bottom up”, when ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Open Systems Interconnection model (OSI model)

First, and foremost, the OSI stack is just a theoretical reference model. There is no actual OSI software. It has been around since about 1980, and it is based upon recommendations from the ITU-T and ...
AFCEA

Software Overlay Provides Identity-Based Security Layer to OSI Model

As cybersecurity threats grow more sophisticated, traditional network architectures struggle to keep pace, especially in sectors reliant on legacy hardware. IMPRES Technology Solutions has introduced ...
Semiconductor Engineering

OSI’s Model For Security

Peeling back the layers of IoT devices reveals most of them are nothing more than what are already on the Internet in the form of present-day M2M devices. In just six years, according to Cisco Systems ...
Electronic Design

What’s The Difference Between The OSI Seven-Layer Network Model And TCP/IP? (.PDF Download)

Whether it’s wired or wireless, most data communications today happens by way of packets of information travelling over one or more networks. But before these networks can work together, though, they ...
EDN

The Seven Faces of the OSI Network Model: Part 1

For many in the communication industry, the open system interconnect (OSI) network model is a simply a stack. But, designers shouldn't be so quick to diminish the value that the OSI model provides to ...