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Layer3 IT Solutions Ltd Registered address: Westerly Buckfastleigh Devon TQ11 0JX Managing Director: Nick Franklin  Company registration number: 5801715 What's in the name? Why "Layer3 IT"? This diagram shows the popularly referenced OSI Network Model in which layer three is the Network Layer - the layer where logical network addressing takes place, so Layer3 IT is just a (slightly geeky!) reference to that.
By far the most common Network Layer protocol is the Internet Protocol (IP). Layer three is concerned with addressing of nodes on a network and with the selection of routes for packet delivery between internetworks. Further reading...(!!)
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