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Glossary: Add Lightning Protocol Suite
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Other components of the Lightning Network are the gossip protocol, the transport layer, and payment requests.
The source code is available at https://github.com/lightningnetwork.

Lightning Network Protocol Suite::
The Lightning Protocol Suite consists of 5 Layers which are responsible for various parts of the protocol.
From bottom (the first layer) to the top (the fifth layer) these layers are called: Network Communication Layer, Messaging Layer, Peer 2 Peer Layer, Routing Layer, Payment Layer.
Various BOLTs define tasks on one or several layers.

Lightning Network Node, Lightning Node::
A participant on the Lightning Network.
A Lightning user will run Lightning node software in order to interact with other Lightning nodes.
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