Labels:text | screenshot | rectangle | diagram | font | parallel OCR: ROUTING/SWITCH Hub Switch/ PCs on Hub Router shared LANS Hub Central Router Hub Switch/ Router FIGURE 3: Switches can be used to complement routers. These switches usually have a variety of port-speed interfaces, from Ethernet to ATM, can perform Network- layer routing, have very high packet-forwarding rates, and sport fault-tolerance and redundancy features.