What is mean by MAC ?

Answer Posted / kislay

The Media Access Control Layer is one of two sublayers that
make up the Data Link Layer of the OSI model. The MAC layer
is responsible for moving data packets to and from one
Network Interface Card (NIC) to another across a shared
channel.The MAC sublayer uses MAC protocols to ensure that
signals sent from different stations across the same
channel don't collide.

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