Saturday, January 25, 2020

What is Transport layer?


When we read books we found about transport layer like below
“A transport-layer provides for logical communication between the application
processes running on different hosts
By host we mean, all the devices like laptops, smartphones, tablets,
TVs, gaming consoles, Webcams, automobiles, environmental sensing devices that are hooked up to the Internet.
By Application process, we mean different applications like Facebook, Hotstar, youtube, Whatsapp in our mobile etc.
By logical communication, we mean that from an application’s perspective, it is as if the hosts running the processes were directly connected; in reality, the hosts may be on opposite sides of the planet, connected via numerous routers and a wide range of link types.
So when we chat with friends using Whatsapp, we send messages to one another
without worrying about details of the physical infrastructure used to carry these messages.

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