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Running Head: NETWORK TECHNOLOGY 1
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NETWORK TECHNOLOGY 2
Network Technology
Introduction
In light of the current advance in information technology, organizations can transmit data
digitally with internet-working devices such as Reuters, hubs, switches, and repeaters.
Internetworking devices comprise any hardware within a network that can connect various
network resources. All the tools have separately integrated scope features, dependent on the
network requirements and scenarios. While the internet-working devices have demonstrated
various advantages, thereby reinforcing the effective performance in network technology, they
have also been linked to specific disadvantages that have delayed or hindered the performance of
the network technology. The paper describes various internet-working devices and their
advantages and disadvantages.
Hubs
A hub signifies a networking gadget that interfaces several ethernet devices using a twisted
pair of fiber optic cables. The device operates at the physical layer encompassing layer-1 of the
OSI stack. Otherwise called a concentrator, a hub is used to connect devices, particularly in a star
topology. In particular, when a packet reaches one port, it is duplicated in all the ports of the hub.
However, when the packets are not copied, the endpoint address in the frame does not change to a
transmission address. Therefore, a hub works as a multiport repeater that broadcast information to
all the ports where devices are connected. The essential features of a network hub comprise
availability in 4 to 24 port sizes, operations in half-duplex mode, and three types of viz; active hub,
passive hub, and intelligent hub. The specific advantages of a network hub consist of its ability to
extend the total distance of the network, and it is cheaper. It can also connect different media types
increasing the efficiency of the network technology. A network hub is also attributed to specific
demerits. It does not operate in full-duplex mode and does not have mechanisms such as
retransmission of packets and collision detection. A hub cannot reduce network traffic and does
not filter information considering that it passes packets to all associated sections (Mitchell, 2020).
Switches and MAUs
A switch alludes to a system administration tool that transmits data only to the host where
it is being addressed. A switch checks the objective location to route the packet suitably. It operates

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Running Head: NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Network Technology Student's Name Institutional Affiliation Date of Submission 1 NETWORK TECHNOLOGY 2 Network Technology Introduction In light of the current advance in information technology, organizations can transmit data digitally with internet-working devices such as Reuters, hubs, switches, and repeaters. Internetworking devices comprise any hardware within a network that can connect various network resources. All the tools have separately integrated scope features, dependent on the network requirements and scenarios. While the internet-working devices have demonstrated various advantages, thereby reinforcing the effective performance in network technology, they have also been linked to specific disadvantages that have delayed or hindered the performance of the network technology. The paper describes various internet-working devices and their advantages and disadvantages. Hubs A hub signifies a networking gadget that interfaces several ethernet devices using a twisted pair of fiber optic cables. The device operates at the physical layer encompassing layer-1 of the OSI stack. Otherwise called a concentrator, a hub is used to connect devices, particularly in a star topology. In particular, when a packet reaches one port, it is duplicated in all the ports of the hub. However, when the packets are not copied, the endpoint address in the frame does not change to a transmission address. Therefore, a hub works as a multiport repeater that ...
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