Hub

1) A large retailer or manufacturer having many trading partners. 2) A reference for a transportation network as a 'hub and spoke' which is common in the airline and trucking industry. For example, a hub airport serves as the focal point for the origin and termination of long-distance flights where flights from outlying areas are fed into the hub airport for connecting flights. 3) A common connection point for devices in a network. 4) A web 'hub' is one of the initial names for what is now known as a 'portal.' It came from the creative idea of producing a web site which would contain many different 'portal spots' (small boxes that looked like ads with links to different, yet related content) . This content, combined with Internet technology, made the idea a milestone in the development and appearance of web sites, primarily due to the ability to display a lot of useful content and store one's preferred information on a secured server. The web term 'hub' was replaced with portal. 5) An Internet web site that provides a central repository for data or a central planning capability in an industry or supply network.