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DEFINITION: Also see repeater, hub, bridge, gateway, and router.In a telecommunications network, a switch is a device that channels incoming data from any of multiple input ports to the specific output port that will take the
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Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Published: 18 Aug 2008
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SWITCHES DEFINITION (continued):
data toward its intended destination. In the traditional circuit-switched telephone network, one or more switches are used to set up a dedicated though temporary connection or circuit for an exchange between two or more parties. On an Ethernet local area network ( LAN), a switch determines from the physical device ( Media Access Control or MAC) address in each incoming message frame which output port to forward it to and
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