{"id":165,"date":"2022-11-23T11:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/?p=165"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T11:12:22","slug":"routers-and-switches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/2022\/11\/23\/routers-and-switches\/","title":{"rendered":"Routers and Switches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

Routers and Switches<\/h2>\nThese are both used for connecting computers through networking. However, they both are having distinct differentiation and purposes.\n

What is a Router?<\/h2>\nA router is a networking device that connects computer networks<\/strong><\/em>, for example, connecting a home network with the Internet. Routers are the workhorses that transfer packets of data between networks to establish and sustain communication between two nodes in an\u00a0internetwork.\n\nRouters operate at Layer 3 (network layer) of the OSI model.\n\nA router uses the destination IP address in a data packet to determine where to forward the packet.\n\n\u00a0\n

What is a Network Switch?<\/h2>\nA network switch connects devices together on a single computer network<\/strong><\/em>.\n\nA switch is also called switching hub, bridging hub, or MAC bridge. Switches use MAC addresses to forward data to the correct destination.\n\nA switch is considered a\u00a0Layer 2<\/a>\u00a0device, operating at the data link layer; switches use packet switching to receive, process and forward data.\n\n\n\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/switch-and-router.jpg?fit=1127%2C567&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimm.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}