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What distinguishes regular home routers from Cisco routers?


Home routers and Cisco routers are entirely dissimilar from one another:

To make it easier to have internet access in your home, the home router combines the features of switches and routers into one unit. When it performs the functions of both devices at the same time (routing & switching), it is sometimes referred to as a combo device.
However, in a professional network, there are two distinct devices—switches and routers—that each perform a distinctive function and have a unique configuration in addition to existing at different levels of the network hierarchy.

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