What is a MAC Address? – Here’s a Concise Explanation

If you do teach networking, this video is one to bookmark and possibly use as an evaluation resource or video-based lesson in a tool like Edpuzzle.

PowerCert Animated Videos use concise and clear descriptions of big principles in computer system hardware and networking. I referred to them fairly often when I was teaching an intro to networking course last year..

As the title states, the video describes what a MAC address is, how its written, where to discover it, and its role in networking. The video also does an excellent job of explaining the key distinction in between MAC addresses and IP addresses.

Applications for Education.
Most readers of this blog site will never ever require to know what MAC address is or how it fits into the networking procedure. It is nice to understand and can useful to know how to locate it if your IT administrator ever asks for it.

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