How does a star-wired bus topology work??

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In a star-wired bus topology, all workstations connect to a central device such as the hub. The hub is a nonintelligent device that simply and immediately retransmits the data it receives from any workstation out to all other workstations (or devices) connected to the hub. All workstations hear the transmitted data, because there is only a single transmission channel, and all workstations are using this one channel to send and receive. Sending data to all workstations and devices generates a lot of traffic but keeps the operation very simple, because there is no routing to any particular workstation. Thus, with regard to its logical design, the star-wired bus is acting as a bus: when a workstation transmits, all workstations (or devices) immediately receive the data. The network's physical design, however, is a star, because all the devices are connected to the hub and radiate outward in a starlike (as opposed to linear) pattern.The hub at the center of star-wired bus topology comes in a variety of designs.They can contain anywhere from two to hundreds of connections, or ports, as they are called. If, for example, you have a hub with 24 ports, and more are desired, it is fairly simple to either interconnect two or more hubs, or purchase a larger hub.

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