Advantages of Switches
- Prevents traffic overloading in a network by segmenting the network into smaller subnets.
- Increases the bandwidth of the network.
- Less frame collision as the switch creates the collision domain for each connection.
What is a network switch, and how does it work?
The Switch is a network device that is used to segment the networks into different subnetworks called subnets or LAN segments. It is responsible for filtering and forwarding the packets between LAN segments based on MAC address.
Switches have many ports, and when data arrives at any port, the destination address is examined first and some checks are also done and then it is processed to the devices. Different types of communication are supported here like unicast, multicast, and broadcast communication.