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Digital Literacy How the Internet Works The Internet Routers and Switches

Ashish Chalukya
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What is Switch

What Is Switch?

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Tobias Mahnert
Tobias Mahnert
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Tobias Mahnert
Tobias Mahnert
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Hey Ashish,

switches connect local networks in a school, office or computer lab.

Hope that helps

Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
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Nathan Tallack
Nathan Tallack
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Take care to note that the function of a device is what they are naming here, not the type of the hardware itself.

Often these days the same physical device performs the function of a switch and a router (sometimes called a layer 3 switch).

So do keep in mind that sometimes people may be referring to a physical device and sometimes they may be referring to a function that a physical device is performing. :)