Collectively the silicon chip and package are often called a chip or microchip. SIP Semiconductor Intellectual Property. A switching hub remembers what devices are connected to each port and only sends data to the required port. Each port has the full bandwidth and is not required to share it unlike ordinary hubs. Switch Controls the traffic flow of frames across a network by providing a dedicated connection.
Switches operate at the data link layer.
A wiring scheme that uses standard pairs of copper wires. Twisted pair might be used for normal telephone connections, serial data links, or twisted pair Ethernet. Verilog HDL A hardware description language based on IEEE standard 1076. The language supports modelling of hardware at levels of abstraction ranging from the gate level to very abstract behavourial or performance models. WAN Wide Area Network.