In the second episode of the “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” podcast series, we explore the different types of industrial network topologies and how Ethernet and wireless networks are ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.

A LAN is a network that is geographically confined to one building or site. Examples include networks employed by small businesses, small organisations, schools, colleges, universities and in homes.

A network switch is a small hardware device that links multiple computers together within one local area network, wide area network and different network topology. Network switches work at Data Link ...