Computers and other devices are physically connected via cabling to the network Wireless signals send data through the air between devices, instead of using physical cables The structural layout of the network defines the Network 6 Network This network topology uses a central device to connect each device directly to the network. It is the bus topology This topology uses multiple connections between network devices. What is it? A combination of two or more different basic network topologies. It can be star-bus, star-mesh, bus-mesh-star topologies, etc The way networks are designed to communicate defines a Network topology topology 10 11 Network