Sunday, February 23, 2014

Oracle Network Architectu​re

Application layer are implemented by OCI (Oracle Call Interface) in client and OPI (Oracle Program Interface) in server side.

Presentation layer protocol is call Two-Task Common (TTC) and is responsible for character set and data type conversion between client and server.

Session layer and network layer are implemented by Net8/Net9 and SQL*Net before that.  The Net8 protocol has 2 components - Net Foundation and Protocol Support.  Protocol Support further breaks down into 2 layers - Routing/Naming/Auth and TNS (Transport Network Substrate). 

The role of TNS is to select the Oracle Protocol Adapter which wrap around one of the support transport protocol – TCPIP, name pipes and SDP (Socket Direct Protocol) for Infiband network.

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