If you have anything to do with networked AV and you're not well-versed in the OSI model, we've got you covered. You will learn the fundamental ideas around getting data from host A to host B over a ...

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 ...

Other tips in this series have examined the seven-layer OSI model from the perspective of security. Although security was not the No. 1 goal of the designers of the OSI model, the idea behind these ...

Most IT users will be familiar by now with the idea of `the software-defined something or other’. Indeed, there vendors that already talked about software-defined everything, which really should cover ...

Network security is typically done in layers. Whether folks secure at the edge, the core, or in between, the network is secured in layers to ensure optimum protection. Using that as a baseline, author ...

Properly speaking, Ethernet only defines the physical layer—cables, connectors and firmware that enables communication over the media—but there is also the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) stack.