Physical Medium Attachment sublayer
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The Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) sublayer is a component of the physical layer in high-speed Ethernet standards that handles bit-level serialization, deserialization, and adaptation between the physical medium and higher physical sublayers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Physical Medium Attachment sublayer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20904803 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Physical Medium Attachment sublayer Context triple: [100 Gigabit Ethernet, usesPMA, Physical Medium Attachment sublayer]
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Data Link Layer
The Data Link Layer is the second layer of the OSI model responsible for reliable node-to-node data transfer, framing, and physical addressing (MAC) over a physical network medium.
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B.
IEEE 802.18
IEEE 802.18 is the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group within the IEEE 802 standards community that focuses on spectrum and regulatory issues affecting wireless LAN and MAN technologies.
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C.
IEEE 802.2
IEEE 802.2 is a legacy IEEE networking standard that defines the Logical Link Control (LLC) sublayer of the data link layer for local and metropolitan area networks.
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D.
ITU-T G.9903
ITU-T G.9903 is an international telecommunications standard that defines narrowband power line communication technology for smart grid and advanced metering infrastructure applications.
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E.
PDCP
PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) is a key LTE/E-UTRAN layer responsible for header compression, security (ciphering and integrity), and in-sequence delivery of user and control plane data between the radio network and the core.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Physical Medium Attachment sublayer Target entity description: The Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) sublayer is a component of the physical layer in high-speed Ethernet standards that handles bit-level serialization, deserialization, and adaptation between the physical medium and higher physical sublayers.
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A.
Data Link Layer
The Data Link Layer is the second layer of the OSI model responsible for reliable node-to-node data transfer, framing, and physical addressing (MAC) over a physical network medium.
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B.
IEEE 802.18
IEEE 802.18 is the Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group within the IEEE 802 standards community that focuses on spectrum and regulatory issues affecting wireless LAN and MAN technologies.
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C.
IEEE 802.2
IEEE 802.2 is a legacy IEEE networking standard that defines the Logical Link Control (LLC) sublayer of the data link layer for local and metropolitan area networks.
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D.
ITU-T G.9903
ITU-T G.9903 is an international telecommunications standard that defines narrowband power line communication technology for smart grid and advanced metering infrastructure applications.
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E.
PDCP
PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) is a key LTE/E-UTRAN layer responsible for header compression, security (ciphering and integrity), and in-sequence delivery of user and control plane data between the radio network and the core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.