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A repeater device for connecting multiple twisted pair or fiber optic Ethernet cables together.
Connected devices become a single network segment.
Hubs work at the physical layer, i. e. layer 1 of the OSI model , which formally describes the layered network protocol design.
Hub device is a form of multiport repeater.
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