Active Hardware
Networking equipment is special hardware devices used to connect various servers, PCs, application terminals and other nodes to each other to form a data network in a local area network, a metropolitan area network or a wide area network. Common network devices include; switches, routers, firewalls, bridges, hubs, gateways, VPN servers, network interface cards (NICs), wireless access points (WAPs), modems, 5G base stations, optical transceivers, optical transceivers, optical cables, Laptops, Printers, etc.