Bus Continued
Although the stations are all on one cable segment, the bus continues to work when stations are off line because the media does not actually pass through the individual stations.
The bus topology has several advantages:
- It is inexpensive.
- It is easy to design and implement--you simply daisy-chain the stations together.
The bus topology has its disadvantages:
- It is difficult to troubleshoot. If a cable break occurs at any location on the bus, the entire bus fails and it can be difficult to locate the point of failure.
- It requires termination. If the last computers on the chain are not correctly terminated, stations cannot transmit.