Question

3. 1) What are managed switches?,

2) What benefits do they bring?,

3) Do managed switches increase or decrease total costs?

4. Which network layers in the TCP/IP OSI hybrid stack does Ethernet define standards for?

Answer 1

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1. What are managed switches?
   Answer:----- A managed switch is a switch that supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). Within the managed switch are data locations that supply a wealth of knowledge about how the system is operating.
2. What benefits do they bring?
   Answer:----- The managed switch allows you have better control of your network and all the traffic moving through it.The managed switch lets you adjust each port on the switch to any setting you desire, allowing you to monitor and configure your network in many different ways. It also provides greater control over how data travels over the network and who has access to it.managed switch allows you have better control of your network and all the traffic moving through it.
3. Do managed switches increase or decrease total costs?
   Answer:----- Managed switches decrease total costs.

d. Which network layers in the TCP/IP OSI hybrid stack does Ethernet define standards for?
Answer:----- Data Link Layer  is responsible for link establishment and termination, frame traffic control, sequencing, acknowledgement, error checking, and media access management. The most familiar standards used at the data link layer include IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) Media Access Control (MAC) and Logical Link Control (LLC) sublayers.