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.

The problem with today's hodge-podge of technologies is that it doesn't allow an end-to-end view, which is becoming especially critical since mobile users and cloud-based applications are on different ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...