Oct
13
2016
Routers could be easily confused with switches or bridges, since some of their functions intersect. However, router communicate with the outside world (outside the network) which other devices are not
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Sep
06
2016
Switches bring bridging functionality to the network. Also, they allow micro-LAN segmentation allowing to manage bandwidth for each node connected through switch. Network could be virtually segmented
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Aug
22
2016
Have you ever thought, that when you every day talk about wavelengths, that are used in your equipment like WDM media conv
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Aug
18
2016
Even though today repeaters and hubs are essentially same devices, it was not always this way. As it is clear from the name, main goal of repeater is to "repeat". Due to nature of electrical current,
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Aug
16
2016
Media converter's main task is to convert signal from one media type to another one. Most commonly it is used to convert signal between copper-based media (coax cable, UTP cable) and optical media (fi
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