Jelaskan Lapisan 3: Rangkaian dari Model OSI dalam bahasa melayu

Lapisan rangkaian memberikan fungsi-fungsi dan prosedur untuk menghantar pelbagai jenis aturan data daripada punca kepada destinasi melalui satu atau lebih rangkaian sambil mengekalkan kualiti perkhidmatan lapisan penghantar.  The Network layer performs network routing functions, and might also perform segmentation/desegmentation, and report delivery errors. Routers operate at this layer—sending data throughout the extended network and making the Internet possible (also existing at layer 3 (or IP) are switches). This is a logical addressing scheme – values are chosen by the network engineer. The addressing scheme is hierarchical. The best known example of a layer 3 protocol is the Internet Protocol (IP)