POWER UP YOUR SMALL-MEDIUM BUSINESS: A GUIDE TO ENABLING NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

Power Up Your Small-Medium Business

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Ring Topology

With a ring topology, every node has exactly two links connected to it, usually

forming a loop, with other nodes on the ring. Token Ring (IEEE 802.5) and Fiber

Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) are examples of the types of networks that use

this topology. Data is sent from one node to the next, around the ring in a single

direction, until it ends up back where it started. Each node copies the data that is

addressed to it as the data passes through the node.

Bus Topology

In a bus topology, all nodes (or endpoints) are connected linearly, one to

another. With this physical topology, when one device transmits, ...