Layer 2 technologies relate to the OSI Data Link Layer. Today’s modern enterprise, distributed networking world of multimedia and client applications dictates the need for greater bandwidth and a greater degree of control. Over the past decade, almost all organizations have replaced their shared networking technology (i.e., hubs) with switches to create switched technologies.
A collision domain is comprised of nodes and devices that share the same bandwidth, and this is called a bandwidth domain. For instance, everything that is connected to a switch port via a hub is in a collision domain. This means there is always . . .
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