MTU

1. Multi-Tenant Unit. An office building or mixed-use (i.e., commercial/residential) building housing more than one entity. An MTU has considerable implications for local loop deployments, particularly with respect to passive optical network (PON). See also local loop and PON. 2. Maximum Transmission Unit. In Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), all networks must support a packet of at least 1280 octets.

The recommendation, however, is that all networks be configured to support an MTU of 1500 octets or greater in order to support encapsulation of Ethernet payloads without incurring fragmentation. See also encapsulate, Ethernet, fragmentation, IPv6, octet, packet, and payload.

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