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Week 06, Unit 07:
The Transport Layer
The Transport Layer
Learning Objectives
• According to Wikipedia:
“In computer networking, the transport layer or layer 4 provides end-
to-end communication services for applications within a layered
architecture of network components and protocols. The transport
layer provides convenient services such as connection-oriented
data stream support, reliability, flow control, and multiplexing.”
• In English:
Services running at the Transport layer invisibly manage a
conversation from start to finish between hosts so that the
communication occurs in a reliable manner when reliability is
needed, or, in a ‘best effort’ manner when it is not.
• Transport layer often referred to as Layer 4
Version 1.0/Spring 2013 CCNA 1 – An Introduction to Networking 3
Why the Transport Layer (cont’d)?