4.3 Basic Networking Devices: Routers, Switches, Modems
Basic Networking Devices: Routers, Switches, Modems: - Networking devices or Networking hardware are electronic devices which are required for communication and interaction between devices on a computer network. The commonly used Basic Networking Devices are: 1. Switch. 2. Router. 3. Modem. 1) Switch: - A Switch is a data link layer networking device which connects devices in a network and uses packet switching to send and receive data over the network. Like a hub, a switch also has many ports, to which computers are plugged in. However, when a data frame arrives at any port of a network switch, it examines the destination address and sends the frame to the corresponding device(s). Thus, it supports both unicast and multicast commun...