The best topology, whether it is a LAN based or a WAN based topology, is the one best suited for your environment. There is no one best topology for all situations.
best among all topologies is star topology. it is simple to establish, is centralized and offers high speed .
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what are the different networking topologies?
Logical topologies consist of virtual connections between nodes.
Mesh topologies and SONET rings.
Those are the topologies - star, bus, and ring (that is their name).
A complex combination of topologies is often referred to as a hybrid topology. It combines two or more different basic network topologies, such as star, bus, ring, or mesh, to meet the specific needs of a network infrastructure. Hybrid topologies offer a balance of scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.
Can a single physical topology support multiple logical topologies give a proper reason.
I found and linked below a website that has information on many, but not all, network topologies.
Network Topology decides how Devices on a Network will be interconnected. General used Topologies are BUS, RING & STAR Topologies.
Several different topologies are used in supercomputing. A mesh architecture is one of the more common topologies out there. Mesh architectures are particularly well suited to applied simulations. The canonical example is a simulation of ocean weather patterns where each node in the supercomputer will represent (and handle calculations for) a specific patch of ocean, such as a 10x10 square mile sector. In this example, each patch of ocean must communicate information, such as wind speed and temperature to other neighboring nodes and in turn, must update the sector parameters based on information received by its neighbors. Other example topologies include the master/slave architecture where one node serves to aggregate and process results from all other nodes. There are also ring topologies, tree topologies, and hypercube topologies. By far the fastest communicating, and most expensive topology is the all-to-all topology where every node is connected to every other node. This works fine in superomputers with 20 nodes, but in the largest supercomputers, trying to connect thousands of nodes each to the other thousands of nodes becomes practically impossible. Hence why there are other topologies.
Point to point topologies -with just 2 interconnected nodes, P2P do not require addressing