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 ...

A physical topology is how they are actually interconnected with wires and cables. For example, in a shared Ethernet network that uses hubs rather than switches, the logical topology appears as if ...

runs between bridges and would be the beginning of the transformation of Ethernet as a shared medium (like WiFi today) into a star topology network, with each connected system getting its very own ...