Glossary

Mbps (Megabits per second) ‹ Transmission speed or rate of one million bits per second.

MBps (Megabytes per second) ‹ Transmission speed or rate of one million bytes per second or 8 Mbps.

Medium ‹ Physical means used to carry transmissions. Examples include coaxial cable, fiber optics, microwave, satellite, or twisted pair.

MIB (Management Information Base) ‹ The specification that defines objects for referencing variables such as integers and strings. In general, it contains information about the network's management and performance (for example, traffic parameters). See IP (Internet Protocol).

Modem (MODdulator-DEModulator) ‹ Device that converts serial digital data from a transmitting terminal to a signal suitable for transmission over a telephone channel (analog), and then reconverts the signal to serial digital data for the receiving terminal.

MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) ‹ The largest packet that can be sent over a given medium.

Multicast ‹ A technique that allows copies of a single packet or cell to be passed to a set of destinations.

Multi-link PPP ‹ Allows you to combine two or more B-channels into a single, faster PPP connection. With Multi-link PPP, you can have a 128 Kbps PPP connection over a Basic Rate ISDN line.

NDIS ‹ See Network Driver Interface Specification.

NET (Normes Europeennes de Telecommunication) ‹ European standards for approving and testing equipment.

Network ‹ An interconnection of multiple stations or systems that are able to send messages to and receive messages from one another.

Network driver interface specification (NDIS) ‹ An application programming interface (API) definition that allows DOS, OS/2, or Windows systems to support one or more network adapters and protocol stacks.

NDIS defines a specific way for writing drivers for layers 1 and 2 of the OSI model. NDIS also handles the configuration and binding of these network drivers to multiple protocol stacks.

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