Switching
Hubs – What is Switching Hubs? Characteristics of Switching Hub.
A switch, which
resembles a hub, is known as switching hub. But there is stark difference
between hub and switching hub or a switch. Hub acts as a LAN concentrator, and
repeater. It consists of a single box with multiple ports. Each port is
connected with a separate computer. A signal transmitted by a computer travels
to all ports like a bus topology.
With the evolution of
bridge technology, a data packet input to one port is first checked for its
destination and is outputted\accordingly to the respective port. In this manner
multiple ports can communicate simultaneously with one another using switch. It
can be said, in other words, that a switching hub has multiple buses for
multiple LANs.
Characteristics
of Switching Hub
A switching hub can
operate with multiple media (coaxial cable, UTP, and fiber)
It can work with
different technologies with different speeds
It provides routing
capabilities, too
This is manageable
via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or another appropriate
network management protocol
Switching hub
provides an expanded bandwidth.
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