Answer:
• NIC stands for Network Interface Card.
• NIC act as the physical interface between the computer and the network cable.
• NIC is one of the hardware device present on the motherboard(i.e. on the PCI slot)
• PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect
• NIC also called as Network Adapter Card
• Each computer in computer network must have a card called as NIC
• Computer can communicate with computer network by using NIC
• NIC card perform all network related functions on the behalf of the computer.
Functions of NIC:
• Prepare data from the computer for the network cable.
• Send the data to another computer
• Control the flow of data between the computers and the cabling
• Receive incoming data from the cable and translate it into bytes that can be understood by the computers CPU.
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