Hubs, Switches And Routers - What's The Difference?
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The backbone of a computer network uses 3 types of devices to interconnect computers - hubs, switches and routers. Each is important and serves a different role in facilitating communication between networked computers. From the outside these devices may look similar - small, metal boxes with multiple connectors or ports where Ethernet cables are attached (routers may also expose other types of connectors). The terms 'hub', 'switch', and 'router' are often used interchangeably and misused - in fact, the devices are quite different. Hubs are used to simply interconnect individual computers. Switches do the same (but more efficiently). However, routers interconnect different networks (as opposed to individual machines).
Posted by enzime on
Friday Jul 27
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