M
- MAC
Media Access Control
- MAU
Media Access Unit
- MDT
Multi-Data Transmission
- MII
Media Independent Interface
- M/M/1 queue
- MSS
Maximum Segment Size
- MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures
- MTTR
Mean Time Till Recovery
- MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
- Multi-tier architecture
For a given custom application, multiples of any of these tiers may be used—thus n-tier. There is no implied relationship between tiers and machines, but collapsing all the tiers onto a single machine would not be network centric.
Client Tier
Web Tier
Application Tier
Database Tier
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