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A telephone line that is permanently available between two endpoints.
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MAN
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Metropolitan Area Network
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MIME
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The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) defined in :rfc:`2045` are a set of extensions to the format of email messages that allow to use non-ASCII characters inside mail messages. A MIME message can be composed of several different parts each having a different format.
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MIME document
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A MIME document is a document, encoded by using the :term:`MIME` format.
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minicomputer
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A minicomputer is a multi-user system that was typically used in the 1960s/1970s to serve departments. See the corresponding Wikipedia article for additional information : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicomputer
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modem
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A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that encodes (resp. decodes) digital information by modulating (resp. demodulating) an analog signal. Modems are frequently used to transmit digital information over telephone lines and radio links. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem for a survey of various types of modems
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MSS
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A TCP option used by a TCP entity in SYN segments to indicate the Maximum Segment Size that it is able to receive.
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multicast
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a transmission mode where an information is sent efficiently to `all` the receivers that belong to a given group
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nameserver
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A server that implements the DNS protocol and can answer queries for names inside its own domain.
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NAT
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A Network Address Translator is a middlebox that translates IP packets.
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NBMA
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