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From this page on ward, I will like to direct your attention to networking topologies, starting with bus.
Bus network topology.
In this type of network all the nodes on a network segment connect to the same physical cable. They must thus connect to get access to the network.
A bus network uses a multi-drop transmission medium, where all nodes on the network share a common bus and thus share communication. This allows one device to communicate at a time. A distributed medium access protocol determines which station is to transmit.
There are other topologies, which are either a combination of two or more of the basic topologies or are derivatives of the main types. Atypical topology is a tree topology that is essentially a combined star and a bus network.
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