Glossary-4
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February 2003
LAN Segment
Separate LAN or collision domain.
LED
Light emitting diode used for monitoring a device or network
condition.
Link Segment
Length of twisted-pair or fiber cable joining a pair of repeaters or
a repeater and a PC.
Local Area Network
(LAN)
A group of interconnected computer and support devices.
Media Access Control
(MAC)
A portion of the networking protocol that governs access to the
transmission medium, facilitating the exchange of data between
network nodes.
MIB
An acronym for Management Information Base. It is a set of
database objects that contains information about the device.
Network Diameter
Wire distance between two end stations in the same collision
domain.
RJ-45 Connector
A connector for twisted-pair wiring.
Switched Ports
Ports that are on separate collision domains or LAN segments.
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