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What is a hub? How does it differ from a switch?

What is a hub? How does it differ from a switch?

Hub is a networking device having the series of connecting ports which joins multiple nodes or other network devices together to form the segment of computer network.
The difference of switch and hub are:

Switch
Hub
It transmits the shared resources to assigned MAC address on a network.It transmits the shared resources to all the node on the network.
It has better performance than hub as it follow only the assigned path.It has weaker performance than switch as it flow the data in every path.

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