Why is Remote Disc on my new Mac Mini?

What the heck is "Remote Disk" and why is it on my new Mac Mini? There is nothing about it in the Help menu, and all I can find out about it online is some vague info about filesharing for Macbook Air. I can't seem to find a clear definition of what it is and why it would be installed in an out-of-the-box Mac Mini.

Remote Disk is a method of sharing DVDs and CDs over a network for machines that don't have built-in DVD/CD drives.
The concept is that you insert a DVD/CD in a machine on the network, then launch Remote Disk on your Mini/MacBook Air/whatever, which looks out over the network, mounts the CD/DVD and runs just as if the disk was directly attached to the machine.
Whether you need it or not depends on your machine and your needs.

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