What is the Presentation Layer?
- Presentation layer is the lowest layer in any solution architecture.
- It is responsible for showing information to the end user which could be very different from what the system delivers otherwise.
- It includes formatting of information, string manipulations, i.e. the way end user would actually see/interact with information.
This layer is responsible for:- Data encryption/decryption
- Character/string conversion
- Data compression
- Graphic handling
- Its main work is to translate data between the application layer and the network format.
- It follows the data programming structure schemes which are developed for the different languages and also provides a real time syntax used for communication.
- The network devices or the components used by this layer include the redirectors and the gateways.
