The Physical Layer provides the mechanical, electric, purposeful, and procedural characteristics to access the physical medium.
The Data Link Layer provides the purposeful and procedural means to transfer facts and numbers between mesh entities and to notice and possibly correct errors which may happen in the Physical Layer. The functions supplied by protocols in this layer typically encompass facilities for synchronization, mistake command and flow control. In alignment to ensure effective and productive use of the kind of transfer technologies, protocols designed to agree their specific characteristics ...