Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus. Token Ring naturally uses the ring architecture. A mesh topology is usually found in a wide area network (WAN ...

Requires more cable than bus topology. Hub/switch performance determines overall network performance. In a ring topology, network nodes are connected circularly, forming a closed loop. Each node ...

An earlier local area network (LAN) access method developed by IBM. Conforming to the IEEE 802.5 standard, the Token Ring access method connects up to 255 nodes in a star topology at 4 ...

So in a non-switched environment, Token Ring had some technical advantages over Ethernet. Token Ring did help to institute Star topology. Being a bus, Ethernet was conventionally deployed at the ...