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The Pure Networking family of Ethernet components from Black Box makes it easy for you to build a small 10-/100-/1000-Mbps Ethernet network. Pure Networking components are affordable, go together easily, and work with any standard Ethernet components you may already own. The 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Switch is the traffic managers of your network. They examine each data packet and send it to the correct port. The switch is easy to set up - simply plug in your devices. It is self-learning and determine the Ethernet addresses in use on each segment, building a table as packets are passed through the switch.