On
any architecture or topology you must consider the logical layout and the
physical layout. Ethernet is logically a bus. Token Ring is logically a ring.
Ethernet is physically a bus - as in 10Base5 and 10Base2 - or a star - as in
10BaseT. The bus arrangement of Ethernet makes more sense when you see it
physically in a 10Base2 form. 10Base2 is the old style of Ethernet that uses
thin coax cable. Token Ring is physically a star as well.
I was reading about network topology and they
say that an example of bus topology is Ethernet network. Wouldn't ethernet
network be a ring topology due to
hub/switch environment?
Please correct me where I am
wrong.
Thank you in advance.
Oscar Rau
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