Why a managed switch is a smart home networking upgrade:
Upgrading to a managed switch for my home unlocked increased control, VLAN support, link aggregation ...
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computer networking device that uses packet switching to forward data; one main component of the Internet infrastructure and of each computer network
computer networking technology to increase throughput by using multiple connections in parallel
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