Monday 8 July 2013

Hub

Hubs are also called "Multi port repeaters" or "concentrators".

Hub is hardware devices.

Hubs in Computer Networking
Figure: Hubs in computer networking

Hub is similar to repeaters, except that it broadcast data received by any port to tall other parts on the hub.


Hubs are used to provide a physical star topology.

Hubs operators at "Physical layer" in OSI model.



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