Media is used efficiently and congestion can be controlled. Priorities on information can be set so important data arrives first. This method does not work with real-time applications such as voice or video. Commonly associated with Meta Tags which are located within an HTML document and contain information that makes it easier for search engines to locate relevant pages on the Internet in response to a search request. A metropolitan area network or MAN is a group of Local Area Networks located within the same city that a joined by some form of connection.
MANs are slower than LANs but usually have fewer errors over the network.
A proprietory computer bus architecture designed by IBM to replace ISA . MCA operates at 16 Mbps or 32Mbps and uses software to configure resource settings. MCA was not designed to be backward compatible with ISA, requiring people to buy new MCA hardware adapters. In communications a way of sending voice, data or video signals through the air as high frequency radio waves, to obtain high transmission capacities at lower cost than copper cable systems. Microwave systems carry analog or digital signals on a line of sight between antennas or on satellite uplinks and downlinks.