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For many businesses, they may have hundreds of computers that need to connect to the internet. In order to do this, they need each computer connected to a switch. The switch will forward frames within the Local Area Network (LAN) and anything that needs to be sent out to the Internet will be sent to the router. The main purpose of the switch is to connect many computers or nodes to one device which in turn connects to a router.

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