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Switching Technology
Another approach to pushing beyond the limits of Ethernet technol- ogy is the development of switching technology. A switch bridges Ethernet packets at the MAC address level of the Ethernet protocol transmitting among connected Ethernet or Fast Ethernet LAN seg- ments.
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The switch acts as a
Switching LAN technology is a marked improvement over the previ- ous generation of network bridges, which were characterized by higher latencies. Routers have also been used to segment local area net- works, but the cost of a router, the setup and maintenance required make routers relatively impractical. Today switches are an ideal solution to most kinds of local area network congestion problems.
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