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The Difference Between Router and Switch

The Difference Between Router and Switch. Not everyone knows: ADVANTAGES OF SWITCH: Switches offer higher performance than bridges and hubs. Switches are easier to install. Switches are easier to maintain than routers.

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The Difference Between Router and Switch

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  1. The Difference Between Router and Switch Not everyone knows: ADVANTAGES OF SWITCH: • Switches offer higher performance than bridges and hubs. • Switches are easier to install. • Switches are easier to maintain than routers. • Switches let network managers preserve their investment in cables, software, and network interface cards. • Each computer or small group of computers can have a dedicated 10 Mbps segment connected to a high-capacity switch instead of having to share 10 Mbps using the current standard. • Switches cost less to operate and administer than competing technologies. • Switches allows an appropriate increase in bandwidth to be added to the network when necessary.

  2. The Difference Between Router and Switch • Switches can provide port densities ranging from 6 to 128 ports per switch. • Switches have the ability to accept high speed technologies such as ATM by providing high-speed ports for down links and server connections. • Some features and functions that switches have include advanced bridging and multiprotocol routing, active congestion control, quality assurances for real-time traffic, and fault tolerance. • Improved Network management applications that help make switched networks easier to operate, configure and manage are also available.

  3. The Difference Between Router and Switch DISADVANTAGES OF ROUTERS • A router can create transit delay because more calculations are needed in deciding how to route packets, especially when the networks involved are of different speeds. • A router requires quite a bit of expertise to manage. • Routers are slower than switches because they must examine multiple packet fields, make substitutions in packet headers, and compute routes on a packet to packet basis. In the process, routers introduce latency (the time it takes for a networking device to process a data frame ) and congestion. • Switches, in comparison, accept frames, read a simple address header and move the data along. Switching latencies are about one-tenth those of fast routers. (10 to 50 microseconds for switched as compared to 100 to 500 microseconds for routers ).

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