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A bridged network can provide excellent traffic management to reduce collisions and limit the amount of

bandwidth wasted with unnecessary transmissions. Transparent bridges working at Layer 2 (of the OSI Model)

forward packets on network segments only when it is necessary. The decision process involves only Layer 2

hardware addresses. Conversely, routers operate at Layer 3, using network addresses and route tables to

make packet forwarding decisions.

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