Intermediary devices interconnect end devices. These devices provide connectivity and work behind the scenes to ensure that data flows across the network. Intermediary devices connect the individual hosts to the network and can connect multiple individual networks to form an internetwork.
Examples of intermediary network devices are:
• switches and wireless access points (network access)
• routers (internetworking)
• firewalls (security).
• Hubs, switches, wireless access points, and other devices used for accessing the network, file servers, web servers, print servers, modems, devices using for internetworking such as routers, bridges, repeaters, and security firewalls, etc.
The management of data as it flows through the network is also a role of the intermediary device. These devices use the destination host address, in conjunction with information about the network interconnections, to determine the path that messages should take through the network.
Titany answered the question on November 30, 2021 at 11:16
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