Saturday, 22 February 2020

Forwarding - layer 1 review

Physical Layer or Layer 1 of the OSI model, what we got here is a media type and connector or in other words hardware and transmission. Layer 1 provides procedural interface for transmission which means it is responsible for sending (signalling) of raw bits of data.
Layer 1 hardware: NICs, Hubs, Repeaters, Cables, Fibre optics, Radio waves
Examples of what is happening at layer 1:


  • Autonegotiation
  • Carrier sense and collision detection (used by Layer 2)
  • Modulation
  • Circuit switching
  • Bit-by-bit or symbol-by-symbol delivery
  • Multiplexing
  • Forward error correction 

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