Instant EtherFast®Series
Switches versus Hubs
Your EtherFast 10/100 Switch boosts your network performance several times over, conserving your time, money and resources. The scalability of your Switch, its full duplex data transfer and dedicated bandwidth all contribute to maximizing efficiency in your Fast Ethernet network.
Your EtherFast 10/100 Switch’s
Scalability allows you to budget for your networking needs over time. Now networks can
Switches also feature
In addition to full duplex transfer, your 10/100 Workgroup Switch surges your network with dedicated bandwidth to each node, devoting 100Mbps to every device and multiplying your bandwidth for each added node. For instance, if you connect sixteen computers to your EtherFast 10/100 Switch, then each computer will get a dedicated bandwidth of 100Mbps at full duplex transfer. If you run sixteen computers from a 100Mbps hub, then each com- puter would only share a part of the 100Mbps bandwidth.
10/100 Workgroup Switches
A network without a switch is called a shared network because every node on the network competes for a fraction of the total bandwidth. In a shared network, data packets are randomly broadcasted to all stations until they discover their intended destination. Consequently, considerable time and bandwidth is wasted on data packets swimming along network lines before they find their correct address. A switch, on the other hand, looks at the address for each data packet and delivers it directly to the correct destination.
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