In the same way that the topology of a geographic region describes how the features of that region are arranged over the area of the region, the topology of a network describes how the components of that network are arranged relative to one another. There are two ways to think about the organization of networks. As should be obvious, having read the header for this subsection, they are the physical topology and the logical topology.
The physical topology describes how a network is physically connected and organized in real space. It describes the medium by which connections are established, the medium of the connections themselves, the location of devices in physical space, and the layout of the connections ...
