Session Layer (5) – Basics



Keyhole Nebula – Hubble Session?

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The Session Layer “provides the mechanism for managing the dialogue between end-user application processes. It provides for either duplex or half-duplex operation and establishes checkpointing, adjournment, termination, and restart procedures.”


Support Multiplexing over a single transport


Encryption handled by layer 6


Logical place to handle Single Sign On