LAN Switching Summary

Switches provide many additional features not offered by older LAN devices such as hubs and bridges. In particular, LAN switches provide the following benefits:

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Image Switch ports connected to a single device microsegment the LAN, providing dedicated bandwidth to that single device.

Image Switches allow multiple simultaneous conversations between devices on different ports.

Switch ports connected to a single device support full-duplex, ...

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