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Ethernet hardware is governed by the ieee802 rules what do the letters ieee stand for and what is the significance of the 802?

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IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

IEEE802 is a specification for family of IEEE and standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks. More specifically, the IEEE 802 standards are restricted to networks carrying variable-size packets.

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