IT Infrastructure

LECTURE
WEEK-6
 Recap of Lecture 4
 Standards
 Standard Organizations
 Line Configuration
 Categories of Line Configuration
Overview of Lecture 5

 Topology
 Categories of Topologies
 Transmission Modes
Topology
“The Topology is the geometric
representation of the
relationship of the links and
linking devices”
OR
“Topology defines physical or
logical arrangement of links in
a Network”
Categories of Topology

Topology

Mesh Star Tree Bus Ring

Mesh Topology
Links and Ports in Mesh
Topology

Number of Links required to

connect ‘n’ devices: n(n-1)/2

Number of I/O Ports: n-1

Links and Ports in Mesh
Topology
Infigure above, we have 5
Nodes, therefore:
No. of Links= 5(5-1)/2 = 10

No. of I/O Ports= 5-1 = 4

Star Topology
Tree Topology
Bus Topology
Summary

 Topology
 Categories of Topologies
 Suggested Reading

 Section
2.2 “Data Communications
and Networking” 2nd Edition by
Behrouz A. Forouzan