| A | B |
|---|
| Ring | Topology with all hosts connected through eachother |
| Mesh | Topology with all hosts directly connected |
| Star | Topology connecting all cables to a central point |
| Extend star | Topology with individual stars connnected together |
| Bus | Topology with single backbone segment |
| Hierarchical | Topology with stars connected by a computer controlling the traffic |
| Logical -Token | how the hosts communicate across the medium |
| Logical - broadcast | each host sends its data to all other hosts on the network medium |
| Repeater | Device that regenerates and propagates electrical signals between two network segments |
| Hubs | devices that serve as the center of a star-topology network |
| Media | Things, such as wires, that information pass through |
| NIC | provides network communication capabilities to and from a computer system |
| Switch | device that filters, forwards, and floods frames based on the destination address of each frame |
| Router | device that uses one or more metrics |
| Bridge | Device that connects and passes packets between two network segments using the same communication protocol |
| Cloud | large, inconcievable network, like the internet |
