Case 7-2
Gabrielle is the network administrator at a medium-sized company.One of her responsibilities is to purchase network devices to maintain the company network.
-Gabrielle realizes that to improve network performance,she needs to buy and install a ____,which identifies the device on the network for which the data is intended and sends the data to that device only.
A)switch
B)node
C)bus
D)bridge

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A switch is a networking device that forwards and filters data packets between network devices based on the destination MAC address. It identifies the device on the network for which the data is intended and sends the data to that device only. Therefore, a switch would be the best choice to improve network performance. Nodes are devices connected to a network, buses are a type of network topology, and bridges are used to connect two or more network segments together.

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