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Acumen Consulting strives to strengthen its clientele's IT backbone
from all facets, whether its software or Hardware related.
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Acumen's Hardware
engineers can assist your business with computer hardware installations, upgrades,
maintenance and support for your laptops, PCs, workstations, printers and peripherals.
Our staff supports most hardware vendor products including Compaq, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM and Dell.
Acumen's
hardware services include:
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| What is the difference between a hub and a switch? Which one is better for my network? |
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A switch is effectively a higher-performance alternative to a hub. People tend to benefit from a
switch over a hub if their home/office network has four or more computers, or if they want to use
their home/office network for applications that generate significant amounts of network traffic.
In most other cases, home/office networkers will not notice an appreciable difference between a hub
and switch (hubs do cost slightly less).
Technically speaking, hubs operate using a broadcast model and switches operate using a
virtual circuit model. When four computers are connected to a hub, for example, and two of
those computers communicate with each other, hubs simply pass through all network traffic to
each of the four computers. Switches, on the other hand, are capable of determining the
destination of each individual traffic element (such as an Ethernet frame) and selectively
forwarding data to the one computer that actually needs it. By generating less network traffic
in delivering messages, a switch performs better than a hub on busy networks
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