DATA

COMMUNICATION

Lecture-5
 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
In figure 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