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'''Open systems architecture''', in [[telecommunication]], is a standard that describes the layered hierarchical structure, [[computer configuration|configuration]], or model of a [[information transfer|communications]] or distributed [[data processing]] [[system]] that:

* Enables system description, design, development, installation, operation, improvement, and [[repair and maintenance|maintenance]] to be performed at a given [[Abstraction layer|layer]] or layers in the hierarchical structure

* Allows each layer to provide a set<!--non-technical use, don't link--> of accessible functions that can be controlled and used by the functions in the layer above it

* Enables each layer to be implemented without affecting the implementation of other layers