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| NIC | Board that provides network communications capabilities to and from a computer system. |
| Ring | Connection of two or more stations in a logically circular topology. |
| Mesh | Network topology in which devices are organized in a manageable, segmented manner with many, often redundant, interconnections strategically placed between network nodes. |
| Star | End points on a network are connected to a common central switch by point-to-point links. |
| Logical-token | the logical topology of a network is how the hosts communicate across the medium. |
| Log-broadcast | Each host sends its data to all other hosts on the network medium. |
| repeater | regenerates and retimes network signals. |
| Hubs | A multi repeater. |
| Media | Physical environments through which transmission signals pass. |
| Switch | device that allows a connetion to be established as necessary and terminated when there is no longer a session to support. |
| router | Forward packets from one network to another based on network layer information. |
| Bridge | device that connects and passes packets between tow network aegments that use the same sommunications protocol. |
| cloud | internet |
