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DEFINITION:

Also see stackable hub.

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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Podcast: Big Blue touts Dynamic, Balanced Warehousing
sponsored by IBM
PODCAST: A data warehouse appliance that's both dynamic and balanced sure sounds good, but what exactly do those terms mean? Gain insight into the balanced warehouse and how IBM uses it as the hub of their dynamic warehousing strategy.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 02 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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Traffic Optimisation Profiling Service Video
sponsored by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
WEBCAST: SingTel TOPs is a reliably proven alternative to help customers manage their existing bandwidth. Besides offering visibility on which applications are in use, it also shows the customer who uses them and how much of the network�s resources they consu
Posted: 15 Apr 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Document Capture: How MFPs can be used as a frond end to network faxing and document management
sponsored by Captaris, Inc.
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to learn how multifunction peripherals (MFPs) can effectively manage both faxing and document communication, and also become a hub for overall document management.
Posted: 06 Feb 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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 … 
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