Presentation layer

Rarity: Uncommon

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the presentation layer is layer 6 and serves as the data translator for the network. It is sometimes called the syntax layer.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Presentation layer”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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