MAC what NET

MAC is for MAC-NET, which is this website. MAC is also for MAC (Market Access and Compliance), MAC (Musee des Arts Contemporains), Freddie Mac (Big time $ Lender), Fleetwood Mac (Musical Mac), Mac Hall Comics (Funny Mac), MAC Cosmetics (Beautiful Mac), Super Mac (Malcolm Macdonald, An English Football Kicker), MAC'S Lift Gate (Strong Mac), Big Mac (Edible Mac) and also Apple MAC (Macintosh).

But according to the IEEE 802 family of standards, MAC (Media Access Control) is one of the lowest layer of the OSI data link layer, the interface between a node's Logical Link Control and the network's physical layer. So, that's how how low down MAC goes! The MAC cannot be compared with various physical media such as Ethernet, token ring, WiFi. MAC address is a unique identifier attached to most forms of networking equipment.

As for NET, according to wikipedia, it may refer to fibers woven in a grid-like structure, any textile in which the warp and weft yarns are looped or knotted at their intersections, (in mathematics) a generalization of a sequence similar to a filter, an arrangement of polygons that can be folded up to form a polyhedron or simplity a safe netted environment for practicing cricket. And for the fishes, the net is something they should avoid swimming into it.

In computing and communication, NET is for Computer network, Telecommunications network or simply the Internet.

Updated On: 15.10.06