Bus topology was what you used in old school coax ethernet. Basically one big piece of coax connected all the machines in the network in a big long bus. If the connection was broken at any point along ...

Robert Metcalfe and his associates invented Ethernet in 1972 (see “Ethernet Prepositions”). The original Ethernet was a coax bus topology with a bit rate of 2.94 Mbits/s. During the next 10 years, it ...

Network Topology, as defined, is the arrangement of the various elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a computer network. It is the topological structure of a network that can be physical or a logical ...