Labels:book | crt screen | hakham | path | plant | plaything | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: 250 SECTION A CHAPTER PHYSICAL TOPOLOGY How are the devices on a LAN physically arranged? The arrange- FIGURE 5.6 ment of devices in network S referred to as its physical topology Figure Network Topologies 5-6 illustrates star ring, sng mesh, and tree topologies; the pathways shown between nodes can be linked by physical cables or wireless signals What are the advantages of each topology? A network arranged as star topology features central connection point that links cables or handles wireless broadcasts to all workstations and peripherals. Many home networks are arranged in a star topology The advantage of this topol ogy c that any link can fail without affecting the rest of the network. ts primary disadvantage is that requires quite a bit of cable to link all the Star topology devices d ...
