Sunday, June 27, 2010

Hubs

There are many types of hubs:
  • Passive hubs are don't require power and are simple splitters or combiners that group workstations into a single segment
  • Active hubs require power and include a repeater function and are thus capable of supporting many more connections.
  • Intelligent hubs provide
    • packet switching
    • traffic routing

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