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What Is Switch
What Is Switch
HUB: -
A hub, also called a network hub, is a common connection point
for devices in a network. Hubs are devices commonly used to
connect segments of a LAN. The hub contains multiple ports. When
a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all
segments of the LAN can see all packets.
A switch is different than a hub in that it keeps a record of all MAC
addresses of all connected devices. Thus, it knows which device or
system is connected to which port. When a data packet is received,
the switch immediately knows which port to send it to. Unlike a hub,
a 10/100 Mbps switch will allocate the full 10/100 Mbps to each of its
ports, and users always have access to the maximum bandwidth – a
huge advantage of a switch over a hub.
Common types of hubs used in networking are network hubs, passive
hubs, intelligent and switching hubs.
ROUTER: -
A router is a device that analyses the contents of data packets
transmitted within a network or to another network. Routers
determine whether the source and destination are on the same
network or whether data must be transferred from one network type
to another, which requires encapsulating the data packet with routing
protocol header information for the new network type.
When several routers are used in a collection of interconnected
networks, they exchange and analyse information, and then build a
table of the preferred routes and the rules for determining routes and
destinations for that data. As a network interface, routers convert
computer signals from one standard protocol to another that's more
appropriate for the destination network.