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The arrangement of cabling and access devices is referred to as a network topology . There are four different types of network topologies (see Figure 21.7):
Figure 21.7. Bus, star, ring, and peer-to-peer topologies compared. The network goes down if a single computer on a bus-topology network fails, but the other network types stay up if one or more computers fail. |
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