At 6:45 PM +0000 9/11/02, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote: >Ken Diliberto wrote: >> >> My understanding of a 10/100 hub is it has a bridge/switch >> internally to > >Technically there's no such thing as a 10/100 hub. If a device connects two >different speed networks, it has to do store and forward of frames (not just >forwarding of bits) and hence is a bridge or switch. I wouldn't call a >device that does both, includes hub ports and an internal bridge/switch as >you mention, "a hub," but product names are chosen by marketing people not >engineers. Shall we create a new term? Brub or swub or hubge or hubtch.
In the proposed joint venture between Cisco and Synoptics, the term selected for router/hub technology was called a "rub" or "rubsystem." You can find this in an early version of the Internetworking Glossary. When I brought this up to a CID class, one of my students mused.."router/hub...hub/router...why didn't they call it a hooter?" Priscilla is quite correct technically. There is no standard definition of "hub." Cabletron, for example, had a marketing approach which called any multislot chassis a hub, into which you could plug L1, L2, or L3 boards. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=53142&t=52973 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
