Mainframes, telephone PBXs and Ethernet are examples. See star bus network and network topology. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

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 ...

the whole network fails if the switch fails as no node can communicate a wired star topology requires plenty of cable - in a large network this can be expensive Star topologies tend to be found in ...