Short Answers to Differences (Including Advantages and Disadvantages) Between:
Mesh, Bus, Ring, and Star topologies
Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and wireless
Use a short answer to explain at what levels of the OSI model does TCP/IP
function?
Mesh
A mesh topology has a point-to-point connection to every other device (node) within the topology. The point-to-point link is dedicated between each device so it will only carry traffic to the two devices that is connected by that link.
The advantage of a mesh topology is it works on the concept of routes, which means that traffic can take one of several paths between the source and destination. The network is also robust in that it will not be crippled if one path becomes unavailable or unstable due to each device being connected to every other device. The Internet uses a mesh topology to operate efficiently.
The main disadvantage to a mesh topology is the fact that it requires a large number of......
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