a store - and-Forward switch, or 'buffered switch', stores each • A badly cabled infrastructure can cause unnecessary think of this as a “cycle”.While it is often called a “frame”, it is different from the oHybrid MAC protocolsA hybrid of TDMA and Handshaking protocols: Implicit complete frame in a buffer before forwarding it on to the collisions due to a device being unable to sense a carrier and “frames” that we have considered, which are essentially linklayer versions of packets.