Medium Attachment Unit
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medium-attachment-unit-170-447144
title:
Medium Attachment Unit
text:
A Medium Attachment Unit (MAU) is a transceiver which converts signals on an Ethernet cable to and from Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) signals. On original 10BASE5 (thicknet) Ethernet equipment, the MAU was typically clamped to the Ethernet wire via a vampire tap and connected by a multi-wire cable to the computer via a DA-15 port, which was also present on the network interface controller (NIC). This AUI cable could be up to 50 metres (160 ft) long, but was typically much shorter. With later s
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Transceiver in an Ethernet network
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Attachment_Unit
date created:
2005-01-21T03:55:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T18:39:40Z
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