transport layer
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layer in the OSI and TCP/IP models providing host-to-host communication services for applications
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Encyclopedic overview
The transport layer in the Internet protocol stack
In computer networking, the transport layer is an abstraction layer in the Internet protocol suite and the OSI model. The protocols of this layer provide end-to-end communication services for applications. It can provide services such as connection-oriented communication, reliability, flow control, and multiplexing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “transport layer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.