What's the Difference Between Routers, Switches and Hubs?

Answer Posted / vadivel

A hub is prone to collisions as pc's connected to a hub
form a single collision domain.
Where as in a switch each port is a collision domain and
the bandwith of each port is fully utilized.
Each port is a collision domain in a swith.

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