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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 18-8 Ethernet star bus

The central box—the switch—provides a common point of connection for

network devices. Switches can have a wide variety of ports. Most consumerlevel

switches have 4 or 8 ports, but business-level switches can have 32 or

more ports.

Early Ethernet networks used a hub. A switch is a far superior version of a

hub and replaced hubs more than two decades ago. No clue why CompTIA

continues to include hubs in the CompTIA A+ objectives. Figure 18-9 shows

a typical consumer-level switch.

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