A central switching point that all devices on an Ethernet segment plug into. Also known as a "multiport repeater" and sometimes called a "concentrator, the hub shares the total bandwidth among all ...

The use of Ethernet switches in a local network. This term was more commonly used when networks were being transitioned from hubs to switches. Today, Ethernet switches are the norm, even a low-cost ...

Thirty years ago this month, Bob Metcalfe first proposed the idea of Ethernet at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Ethernet’s acceptance as a fundamental standard seems almost foreordained today ...

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