Networking Devices
Networking Devices
Networking Devices
Its job is to
regenerate the signal over the same network before the signal becomes
too weak or corrupted so as to extend the length to which the signal can
be transmitted over the same network. An important point to be noted
about repeaters is that they do not amplify the signal. When the signal
becomes weak, they copy the signal bit by bit and regenerate it at the
original strength. It is a 2 port device.
Types of Hub
Active Hub :- These are the hubs which have their own power supply
and can clean, boost and relay the signal along the network. It serves
both as a repeater as well as wiring center. These are used to extend
maximum distance between nodes.
Passive Hub :- These are the hubs which collect wiring from nodes and
power supply from active hub. These hubs relay signals onto the
network without cleaning and boosting them and can't be used to extend
distance between nodes.
Types of Bridges
Transparent Bridges :- These are the bridge in which the stations are
completely unaware of the
bridge's existence i.e. whether or not a bridge is added or deleted from
the network, reconfiguration of
the stations is unnecessary. These bridges makes use of two processes
i.e. bridge forwarding and bridge learning.
Source Routing Bridges :- In these bridges, routing operation is
performed by source station and the frame specifies which route to
follow. The hot can discover frame by sending a specical frame called
discovery frame, which spreads through the entire network using all
possible paths to destination.
4. Switch - A switch is a multi port bridge with a buffer and a design that
can boost its efficiency(large number of ports imply less traffic) and
performance. Switch is data link layer device. Switch can perform error
checking before forwarding data, that makes it very efficient as it does
not forward packets that have errors and forward good packets
selectively to correct port only. In other words, switch divides collision
domain of hosts, but broadcast domain remains
Same.