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What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of A Network

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1) There are advantages and disadvantages to certain types of networks. The three that will be focused on are ring, star, and bus. Each of them has advantages and disadvantages. For a star topology, there is fault tolerance. If one connection goes down, computers can still connect with others. Also, this topology can scale. You can add computers to a network if the switch/hub allows it. However, scalability can create issues if not done correctly. If you just keep adding devices, you need to make sure the switch/hub can handle it and that they can communicate with the rest of the network. If you’re using a hub, the traffic can slow down the network, as each device will receive things like broadcasts. For a ring topology, you can add devices to it. If each computer is connected to another, everything will work fine. If a device can’t connect with the next, then the traffic will stop. For a bus, you can add devices to a network. Traffic will pass from one device to another. You don’t need hardware like a hub or a switch, as the traffic will pass through each device until the information gets to where it needs to be. However, there can be collisions. …show more content…

However, it’s important to understand where/when they’ll be used and for what purpose. A network will use a router when it needs to communicate with other internal networks or access to the internet. It will forward traffic to these networks. A network will use a switch when it’s concerned about something like security. With switch, only traffic destined for a certain device will receive that traffic. Also, switches can do things like port mirroring and even allow only certain devices on certain ports to access that internal network. A network may use a hub when it’s not concerned about security or there aren’t that many devices on that work. If there’s only a handful, there might not be concern about traffic going to each

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