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An adapter containing a power supply to provide the required 12 volts was available from Apple to permit connection of standard AUI transceivers to an AAUI port. This facilitated direct connection to 10BASE-F ( fibre optic ) and 10BASE5 (ThickNet) Ethernet networks, for which AAUI transceivers were not available.
The Apple Communication Slot, or Comm Slot, [1] is an internal expansion data interface (slot) found in Apple Macintosh computers from the early to mid-1990s. [2] It was designed as an inexpensive way to add communication expansion cards like network adapters or modems to Macs and Power Macs. [3] The slot exists in two forms.
IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony and Panasonic.
AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers.AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the need for a centralized router or server of any sort.
In June 2012, Apple began selling a Thunderbolt-to-gigabit Ethernet adapter for US$29. [163] In the third quarter of 2012, other manufacturers started shipping Thunderbolt cables, including cables reaching the 3-meter (9.8-foot) length limit, while some storage-enclosure builders began bundling Thunderbolt cables with their devices, rather than ...
A 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface, known as XAUI, was developed to extend the operational distance of XGMII and reduce the number of interface signals. A smaller variant called the Apple Attachment Unit Interface (AAUI) was introduced on Apple Macintosh computers in 1991, and was phased out by 1998. [9]
Reduced media-independent interface (RMII) is a standard which was developed to reduce the number of signals required to connect a PHY to a MAC. Reducing pin count reduces cost and complexity for network hardware especially in the context of microcontrollers with built-in MAC, FPGAs, multiport switches or repeaters, and PC motherboard chipsets ...
A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, [3] network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface [4]) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network. [5] Early network interface controllers were commonly implemented on expansion cards that plugged into a computer bus.