ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Converged network adapter

So, imagine you have two toys, one is a telephone and the other is a computer. They both need different things to work. The telephone needs a wire to connect to the wall and the computer needs a wire to connect to the internet.

Now, what if we had a special toy called a converged network adapter? It's like a magic toy that can connect both the telephone and the computer with just one wire. That means you don't need two wires anymore!

This is what a converged network adapter does for computers. It's a special card that can help your computer connect to both the internet and a telephone network using just one wire. So, it's like having a magic toy that can do two things at once. Pretty cool, huh?