What are the main advantages and disadvantages of full-mesh topologies and partial-mesh topologies?
What will be an ideal response?
The advantage of a full-mesh topology is the high redundancy, which provides the most reliable connectivity between any two nodes; the likelihood of being able to connect two random nodes is very high even when there are multiple pathway failures.The downside is that it is costly to scale and requires more cable than any other hard-wired implementation.
The advantages of a partial-mesh topology are the increased redundancy (though it is much less redundant that fullmesh) and selective optimization of pathways.The disadvantage is that for this to be successful, it requires a lot of study of the network traffic and a lot of prediction to choose the paths wisely.Partial-mesh topology still requires a significant volume of cable in hard-wired networks as well.
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