Week 4 Individual Assignment
NTC360
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Mesh 3
Bus 4
Ring 4
Star 5
Ethernet 6
Token Ring 6
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) 7
Wireless 7
Reference List 8
Introduction
This paper is an overview of some aspects of network architecture. Network architecture is defined as the communication products and services that ensure the various components can work together. I will discuss the different physical LAN topologies and how they work. Lastly, I will discuss several of the LAN Standards such as Ethernet and Token Ring.
Mesh
A Mesh topology is defined at a network where each device is connected to every other device on the network. A mesh topology provides for the best performance and reliability. This is good because if there is a failure in transmission, there are other ways within the mesh for the devices to communicate. There are two types of mesh topologies: full mesh and partial mesh. In a full mesh topology,......
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