What are the applications of network topology?
The topology of a network is the way the network is layed out. Different net work topologies or designs have different advantages and disadvantages. eg : Mesh – all machines are connected to every other machine. Expanding the next work is a royal pain in the butt, but removing any single machine on the network does take it down. Ring – all mchines on the network are connected one after the other. The first and last two are connected togather to form a complete ring. Remove one machine to while ring goes down. LInear – All the machines are connect in a long line. Adding machine easy. breaking the line means that some machine cannot communicate. Tree – LIke ether net. This is the most common topology in use today. A very scalabe network topology adding and removing machine is very easy.
