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Network Devices

1. Repeaters operate at the physical layer and regenerate signals to extend their transmission distance without amplification. They are 2-port devices. 2. Hubs are multiport repeaters that connect multiple devices in a star topology. They broadcast all data to every connected device, reducing efficiency. 3. Bridges operate at the data link layer and filter data by MAC address like repeaters but can interconnect two LANs using the same protocol. They are 2-port devices.

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Network Devices

1. Repeaters operate at the physical layer and regenerate signals to extend their transmission distance without amplification. They are 2-port devices. 2. Hubs are multiport repeaters that connect multiple devices in a star topology. They broadcast all data to every connected device, reducing efficiency. 3. Bridges operate at the data link layer and filter data by MAC address like repeaters but can interconnect two LANs using the same protocol. They are 2-port devices.

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Network Devices

1. Repeater – A repeater operates at the physical layer. 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.
2. Hub –  A hub is basically a multiport repeater. A hub connects multiple
wires coming from different branches, for example, the connector in star
topology which connects different stations. Hubs cannot filter data, so data
packets are sent to all connected devices.  In other words, collision domain of
all hosts connected through Hub remains one.  Also, they do not have
intelligence to find out best path for data packets which leads to inefficiencies
and wastage.
3. Bridge – A bridge operates at data link layer. A bridge is a repeater, with
add on the functionality of filtering content by reading the MAC addresses of
source and destination. It is also used for interconnecting two LANs working
on the same protocol. It has a single input and single output port, thus
making it a 2 port device.
4. Switch – A switch is a multiport bridge with a buffer and a design that can
boost its efficiency(a large number of ports imply less traffic) and
performance. A switch is a data link layer device. The 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.
5. Routers – A router is a device like a switch that routes data packets based
on their IP addresses. Router is mainly a Network Layer device. Routers
normally connect LANs and WANs together and have a dynamically updating
routing table based on which they make decisions on routing the data
packets. Router divide broadcast domains of hosts connected through it.
6. Gateway – A gateway, as the name suggests, is a passage to connect two
networks together that may work upon different networking models. They
basically work as the messenger agents that take data from one system,
interpret it, and transfer it to another system. Gateways are also called
protocol converters and can operate at any network layer. Gateways are
generally more complex than switch or router.
7. Brouter – It is also known as bridging router is a device which combines
features of both bridge and router. It can work either at data link layer or at
network layer. Working as router, it is capable of routing packets across
networks and working as bridge, it is capable of filtering local area network
traffic.

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