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NIC is a hardware component used to connect one computer to another computer in a network. What does the term NIC mean?

NIC is a hardware component used to connect one computer to another computer in a network. What does the term NIC mean? Correct Answer Network interface Card

Key Points

 A network interface card (NIC) is a hardware component, typically a circuit board or chip, which is installed on a computer so it can connect to a network. A NIC provides a computer with a dedicated, full-time connection to a network.

Modern NICs provide the functionality to computers such as,

  • support for I/O interrupt,
  • direct memory access (DMA) interfaces,
  • data transmission,
  • network traffic engineering and partitioning.

Hence the correct answer is Network Interface Card.

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