A Network Administrator needs a new networking device can perform NAT to connect several devices on a computer network. What is the most appropriate device for this requirement?

A switch operates at Layer 2 (Data Link) using MAC addresses and does not have native IP routing or NAT capabilities.

Routers operate at the Network layer (Layer 3) of the OSI model and maintain routing tables to forward packets between different IP networks. NAT is a Layer 3 function that remaps source or destination IP addresses, and routers are specifically designed to perform this translation to allow multiple devices to share a single public IP address.

A bridge operates at Layer 2 to connect and segment network segments using MAC addresses, with no ability to perform IP address translation.

A hub is a Layer 1 (Physical) device that broadcasts all incoming signals to every port and has no intelligence to inspect or translate IP addresses.