What is encapsulation?

September 8th, 2007 by uCertify Leave a reply »

The term encapsulation refers to the process where headers and trailers are added around some data. A TCP/IP host sends data by performing a process in which four layers encapsulate data (adds headers and trailers) before physically transmitting it.

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