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CONS, Connection-Oriented Network Service, is one of the two OSI stack network layer protocols, the other being CLNS (Connectionless Network Service). It is basically X.25, with a few adjustments. The network layer is level three of the seven level OSI model. ... CLNS is an abbreviation of Connectionless Network Service. ... X.25 is an ITU-T standard protocol suite for WAN networks using the phone or ISDN system as the networking hardware. ...

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