presentation layer
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6th layer of the OSI model of telecommunications; the least abstract for which data representation makes much sense
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “presentation layer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.