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    A medium-dependent interface (MDI) describes the interface (both physical and electrical/optical) in a computer network from a physical-layer implementation...
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  • media-independent interface (MII) was originally defined as a standard interface to connect a Fast Ethernet (i.e., 100 Mbit/s) medium access control (MAC)...
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    within road vehicles. It describes the medium access unit functions as well as some medium-dependent interface features according to ISO 8802-2. This...
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  • Delivery Index, a metric used in IPTV networks Medium-dependent interface (MDI) and medium-dependent interface crossover (MDI-X), types of Ethernet port connections...
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    Data Interface), standardized as TP-PMD (Twisted-Pair Physical Medium-Dependent), also referred to as TP-DDI (Twisted-Pair Distributed Data Interface). FDDI...
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    physical signalling Part 2: High-speed medium access unit Part 3: Low-speed, fault-tolerant, medium-dependent interface Part 4: Time-triggered communication...
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    10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX host normally uses connector wiring called medium dependent interface (MDI), transmitting on pins 1 and 2 and receiving on pins 3 and...
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  • IEEE, 26 December 2008, segment: The medium connection, including connectors, between Medium Dependent Interfaces (MDIs) in a CSMA/CD local area network...
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  • Medium Independent Interface (MII). The interface between the physical layer and the actual transmission medium is called Medium Dependent Interface (MDI)...
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  • IEEE, 26 December 2008, segment: The medium connection, including connectors, between Medium Dependent Interfaces (MDIs) in a CSMA/CD local area network...
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    transmitters/receivers, each with their medium-dependent interfaces (when no data recoding is necessary) or their media-independent interfaces joined together back-to-back...
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  • operator on the coax network. In the case of a coax network, the Medium Dependent Interface (MDI) is typically the industry standard "F" connector. IEEE 802...
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    A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer...
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  • layer provides an electrical, mechanical, and procedural interface to the transmission medium. The shapes and properties of the electrical connectors,...
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    arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely...
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    is attached to a computer or automaton. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs...
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  • layer (PHY), and provides an interface between the physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer and the media-independent interface (MII). It is responsible...
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    Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS-B) is an aviation surveillance technology and form of electronic conspicuity in which an aircraft determines...
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    incident upon a material interface. When light strikes the interface between a medium with refractive index n1 and a second medium with refractive index...
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    position-dependent, and the wavefronts could not be continuous. As the magnitude of the wave vector depends on the refractive index of the medium, the said...
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    is dependent on the amount of deformation of the membrane while surface tension is an inherent property of the liquid–air or liquid–vapour interface. Because...
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  • with the interaction in mind and it may be necessary to change its usage interface. In many cases, thinking about the interaction itself as an abstract concept...
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    affected by the transmission medium they pass through, for instance, by absorption or reflection or refraction at the interfaces between media. Technical...
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    In materials science, a porous medium or a porous material is a material containing pores (voids). The skeletal portion of the material is often called...
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    \left(\theta _{2}\right)} is equal to the refractive index of the second medium with regard to the first ( n 21 {\displaystyle n_{21}} ) which is equal...
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    CDDI). Later, the same technology was used in the 100BASE-TX physical medium dependent sublayer, given the considerable similarities between FDDI and 100BASE-[TF]X...
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  • address (short for medium access control address or media access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC)...
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  • Small Computer System Interface (SCSI, /ˈskʌzi/ SKUZ-ee) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral...
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    medium availability, and a physical layer interface (PHY). The MAC is typically linked to the PHY by a four-bit 25 MHz synchronous parallel interface...
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  • In dielectric spectroscopy, large frequency dependent contributions to the dielectric response, especially at low frequencies, may come from build-ups...
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