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COURSEWORK Coursework Network topologies are similar regardless of the areas of their application. Simple topologies such as star, bus, ring, etc. were invented at the dawn of the networking technology emergence. These topologies provided network users with the opportunity to communicate, share files, and perform other tasks within one network. However, each topology has its peculiarities that can be considered as disadvantages for a particular situation. Therefore, hybrid topologies became the resolution of the emerging need in a more sophisticated but yet reliable network topology. Hybrid topology is the combination of bus, ring, and star topologies in order to provide the necessary redundancy, reliability, etc. or solve any other particular issues. The most common examples of hybrid networks are: star ring and star bus network

(Wikipedia.org, 2012a). Thus, according to Wikipedia.org (2012a), first type consists of two or more star topologies connected using a multistation access unit (MAU) as a centralized hub; the second type is the two or more star topologies connected using a bus trunk (the bus trunk serves as the network's backbone). Considering hybrid topologies, it is possible to apply old names of the simple topologies, such as tree or snowflake, in order to describe the existing hybrid ones. Thus, tree hybrid topology can be described as follows: it is the set of various topologies, connected sequentially with each other. Snowflake topology is different: it is the set of various topologies, connected to the one centralized hub (or through it). The Internet has its own conceptual models or topologies. They are jellyfish model and bow tie model (Wikipedia.org, 2012a). Jellyfish model is the one where pages are strongly connected to one core while bow tie model represents the situation when there are two cores with In and Out links (Siganos, Tauro, & Faloutsos, 2010). It is the development of the jellyfish model.

COURSEWORK References Siganos, G., Tauro, S. L., & Faloutsos, M. (2010). Jellyfish: A Conceptual Model for the AS Internet Topology. Retrieved from:

http://www.google.com.ua/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0C GcQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.ucr.edu%2F~michalis%2FPAPERS%2FJe llyfishJCN.pdf&ei=IHAVUPvIIMjOmAX1xYHADA&usg=AFQjCNGMUJq28cJTgjLpBM 8WjBiVDg3c3w Wikipedia.org (2012a). Network topology. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Topology#Hybrid Wikipedia.org (2012b). Internet topology. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_topology