Hub vs Switch
Difference between Hub and Switch
Hub
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Switch
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It has no intelligence
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It is an Intelligent device and maintains a MAC address table
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It always do broadcasts
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It uses broadcast and Unicast
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It works with 0’s and 1’s(Bits)
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It works with Physical addresses (i.e.MAC addresses)
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It has 1 broadcast Domain
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It has Broadcast domain by default
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It has 1 Collision Domain
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Number of Collision domains depend upon the number of ports
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It works with shared bandwidth
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It works with fixed bandwidth
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It operates at physical layer
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It operates at Data link Layer
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Transmission Mode: Half Duplex
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Transmission Mode: Half/Full Duplex
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4/12 ports are available
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Switch is Multi-port bridge 24/48 ports
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Data Transmission Form: Electrical signals or bits
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Data Transmission Form:
Frame (L-2 Switch), Packet (L-3 switch)
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Speed:10 Mbps
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Speed:10/100 Mbps, 1 Gbps
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