In general, a hub is the central part of a wheel where the spokes come together. The term is familiar to frequent fliers who travel through airport "hubs" to make connecting flights from one point to another. In data communications, a hub
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JobClock is a rugged battery-powered timeclock that is locked down at each jobsite 24 hours a day, rain or shine and each worker carries keytabs on their own keyring that identifies them in the system.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Fibre Channel hubs provide a reliable high-speed single-point solution between servers, clients and storage subsystems in a Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) environment.
HUBS DEFINITION (continued): … is a place of convergence where data arrives from one or more directions and is forwarded out in one or more other directions. A hub usually includes a switch of some kind. (And a product that is called a "switch" could usually be considered a hub as well.) The distinction seems to be that the hub is the place where data comes together and the switch is what determines how and where data is forwarded from the place where data comes together. Regarded in its switching aspects, a … Hubs definition sponsored by SearchNetworking.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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