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Technology evolves at a rapid-fire pace. That’s why we’ve built an easy-to-use glossary to help you better understand the terms, technologies and trends that impact your business.

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In the seven-layer OSI model, it is the physical layer. The physical layer consists of the basic networking transmission technologies of a network.