Evolution of the router

From BBN to Stanford to Cisco to open source

Heres a switch



Layer 3 switches, like Cisco's Catalyst 6500, which debuted in the mid-to-late 1990s, have become a lower cost, higher speed alternative to routers in the core of enterprise IP networks. They are able to support Gigabit — 1000Mbps — Ethernet speeds

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