Bridge
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Data link layer device developed in the early 1980s to connect local area networks (LANs) or create two separate LAN or wide area network (WAN) network segments from a single segment to reduce collision domains Scope Note: A bridge acts as a store-and-forward device in moving frames toward their destination. This is achieved by analyzing the MAC header of a data packet, which represents the hardware address of an NIC.
Classifications
Entity Type
Network0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Bridges
- possessive
- Bridge's
- pluralpossessive
- Bridges'