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shares. As the number of vehicles on the highway increases, the traffic

becomes congested and transit time increases for individual cars.

On a shared hub all nodes must operate at the same speed, either 10

Mbps or 100 Mbps. Fast Ethernet repeaters provide 100 Mbps of

available bandwidth, ten times more than what's available with a

10BASE-T repeater.

Repeaters use a well-established, uncomplicated design, making them

highly cost effective for connecting PCs within a workgroup. These are

the most common type of Ethernet hubs in the installed base.

Switching hubs

In a switched network environment, each port gets a fixed, dedicated

amount of bandwidth. In the highway scenario, each car has its own

lane on a multi-lane highway and there is no sharing.

In a switched environment, data is sent only to the port that leads to the

proper destination station. Network bandwidth is not shared among all

stations, and each new station added to the hub gets access to the full

bandwidth of the network.

If a new user is added to a 100 Mbps switching hub, the new station

receives its own dedicated 100 Mbps link and doesn't impact the 100

Mbps bandwidth of another station. Switching hubs can effectively

increase the overall bandwidth available on the network, significantly

improving performance. Switching hubs can also support full duplex.

For more information on Fast Ethernet, visit the Network Products

website (http:// www.intel.com/network).