What is an important function of the physical layer of the OSI model?

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What is an important function of the physical layer of the OSI model?

  • It accepts frames from the physical media.
  • It encapsulates upper layer data into frames.
  • It defines the media access method performed by the hardware interface.
  • It encodes frames into electrical, optical, or radio wave signals.

Explanation: The physical layer of the OSI model accepts frames from the data link layer and encodes it for transport as bits across the network media.

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