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eDirectory

A standards-compliant directory services system created by Novell. eDirectory was originally implemented as NDS in versions of NetWare up to 5.0.

EIA (Electronic Industries Association)

A group that specifies electrical transmission standards.

EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture)

The successor to the ISA standard. EISA provides a 32-bit bus interface that is used in PCs.

EMI (electromagnetic interference)

External interference of electromagnetic signals that causes a reduction of data integrity and increased error rates in a transmission medium.

encapsulation

A technique that is used by layered protocols in which a layer adds header information to the protocol data unit from the layer above.

encryption

The modification ...

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