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cavsi, Miami, Florida How to reduce the size of the collision domain?

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Reducing the collision domain size can be the result of installing network devices (usually switches and/or network bridges) that use microsegmentation.

Unlike network hubs and regular repeaters that usually broadcast every single packet, LAN switches are able to filter and forward packets by their MAC address (Media Access Control). The switch basically reads the 48-bit MAC address from the network card and is able to filter or stop frames inside the LAN or a certain network domain....



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