What are the differences between L2,L3 and L4 Switches ?

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Date Posted: 2016/10/25

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by Syed Hussain , IT Analyst , TCS

Its Very Simple, L2 switches forwards the MAC address with low latency and L3 switch forwards IP address and also acts as a router with high speed scalability and L4 switches are same as a L3 switch and also acts a firewall like filtering and forwarding the data.

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