Hubs vs. Switches
Switches
- Each port is masked from the other
- High performance
- 10/100/1000Mbps per port
- Traffic load on one port does not impact other ports
- 10/100/1000 switches are commonplace and cheap
- Choose non-blocking switches in core
- Packet doesn’t have to wait for switch
- Management capability (SNMP via IP, CLI)
- Redundant power supplies are useful to have