Network interface card (NIC) manufacturers are branching out into the home and home/office market, as demonstrated by features exhibited by two of the three NIC’s in this paper. The third NIC is an example of a substantial increase in bits of data per second that the card is able to pass most likely to be used in a server. Key selling points of the latest cards are aimed at ease of installing a network aimed at the fast-growing home network market and increasing throughput geared toward the increasing bandwidth demands of traditional business networks.
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