OSI Communication Model Name ________________________

Print out this page and fill in the areas below, or fill them in and print out the filled-in version.

Use your favorite search engine to find at least two Web sites that describe the OSI seven-layer model of communications. For each, give the APA-style citation for the work. The form for APA citations of Web pages can be found on page 208 of B-W’s version of the St. Martin’s Guide, available in the bookstore. If you don’t have one, the form is as follows:

Author or mainatainer. (date of last update). Title of page. Information on retrieval, like “Retrieved Jan 5, 2005, from http://www.domain/stuff/otherstuff.html”

Site 1. citation

Site 2. citation

Now fill in this table with descriptions of the main job of each layer of the OSI model, both on the sending and the receiving side.

Layer	Sending side	Receiving side
Application
Presentation
Session
Transport
Network
Data
Physical