What Are The Four Types Of Network Backbone?
There are four types according to COMPTIA standards Serial, Distributed, Collapsed and Parallel I don’t really clearly understand the difference between them, but I do know….. * Serial is the most common and simplest one where a single backbone line has several hubs connected to it. * Distributed is a Hierarchy. A group of networks (that are interconnected with hubs) connect to a group of serial connected hubs and routers. A network could be like the different building floors that has several hubs to interconnecting each floor as a network. These different floors are connected to a group of serially connected hubs and routers. * Collapsed refers to a network that may have a lot of different networks but all connect to one hub, router or switch. If this one device fails all inter-connectivity between the networks will collapse. *Finally the parallel backbone is the one I am not really clear on……… It is setup in the same way as a collapsed network, but it has multiple media (cabl
