Bus topology: backbone, terminators and collisions

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1. Network topologies: physical and logical
2. Choosing a topology, and building one
3. Bus topology: backbone, terminators and collisions
4. Star topology: hubs, switches and a single point of failure
5. Ring topology and token passing
6. Mesh topology: full, partial and the cable count
7. Tree and hybrid topologies on a school site
8. Topology, performance and a working simulation