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(1) Networking components in a single package. The term may refer to hardware such as a wireless base station that is a complete package or to software such as a centralized management console that ...

Also called a "network interface card" (NIC), a network adapter is a plug-in card that enables a computer to transmit and receive data on a local network. Today, the term refers to an Ethernet adapter ...