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MAC - Media Access Control The MAC Address is also known as the hardware address, which is used to identify each system on the local network, ex. Ethernet. The MAC address is usually encoded on the Network Interface Card (NIC) of the system found on the motherboard. It is a unique 48-bit alphanumeric address that remains different for all the systems in the world.Media Access … [Read more...] about What is the Full Form of MAC Address ?

Gbps - Gigabits Per SecondGigabits per second is the measurement unit that measures the data speed of the modern hardware or a network device, such as a Switch, Ethernet port, hard drive (usually SATA drive) or a digital data transmission medium such as optical fiber.1 Gbps equals 1 billion bits of data transmitted per second. It is mainly used to measure the speed of the high … [Read more...] about What is the Full Form of Gbps ?

kbps - kilobits per second KBps - Kilobytes per secondkbps is the data speed measuring unit used to measure the data rate for any networking device, DSL or a broadband line. 1 kbps equals 1000 bits/s. Other higher network data rates includes Mbps and Gbps. Kbps is usually represented by the notation - kbits/s or kbps.It's interesting to note that the internet speed is measured … [Read more...] about What is the Full Form of kbps ?

CSMA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access CSMA/CD - Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detection CSMA/CA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision AvoidanceCarrier Sense Multiple Access protocol is used in situations where multiple users require to access a single channel for data transmission at the same time. If two or more users transmit the data at the same time, it … [Read more...] about What is the Full Form of CSMA, CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA ?

VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network Virtual Local Area Network is a group of computers that are "logically" not physically connected together to form a LAN. VLAN offers such a flexibility, where computer systems could easily communicate with each other even if they does not belong to the same LAN "physically". A typical  Virtual LAN may spread across a wide area despite of its … [Read more...] about What is the Full Form of VLAN ?