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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is a Maximum Transfer Unit

Maximum Transfer Unit refers to the size of the largest chunk of data, within a single unit, that can be transmitted under a particular protocol. For example, the maximum transfer unit for Ethernet is 1,536 eight-bit bytes. The Maximum Transfer Unit for Fibre Channel, by comparison, is 2,112 eight-bit bytes.

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