As businesses become globally distributed, business applications are more dependent on the WAN than ever before. While WAN capacity is abundant and inexpensive, negative characteristics of the WAN ...

According to the OSI Model, the session layer is where connections are established, managed, and torn down. For connection-oriented network protocols, understanding how the session layer works, and ...

The processing in a network protocol that initiates and terminates a session. The session layer is layer 5 of 7 in the OSI model. See TCP/IP and OSI model. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Layer 7 switching isn’t just for Web servers anymore. Two companies are working to integrate the technology into voice-over-IP networks for corporations and service providers. The ability to route ...

A new report shows an upward trend where attack tools exploit layer 7 to maximize the impact of DDoS assaults. Here's what you can do to blunt the threat. A report from the CYBER SECURITY Forum ...

For many years, security monitoring relied on gathering data from layer 4 of the OSI model through such data types as NetFlow. Because layer 4 data dealt with the transport layer, it isn't the most ...