General Overview About Ring Topology - Part-I

Topology, which is the layout of how computer systems and other networking devices are connected together to create a vibe of communication and sharing between users. There are many types of topologies could be adopted to initiate and maintain such environment, for instance, star, bus, ring, mess, and tree topology.

For the special moment, I will focus on Ring Topology, how it works and its merits and demerits. In the most fundamental aspect it works on a factor known as token, and for this reason it is also known as Token Ring Network. A token is a kind of permission a node would have in a ring topology to transmit data packets. Whenever a node intended to transmit packets over network setup, it needs to have a token, once it is gifted with the token, it can merely then send packets to the suggested recipient. During the time preceding as it get a token, it attaches the recipient information along with it, when recipient receives the packets, it acknowledge the sender with respect to the request of incoming packets. This acknowledgement trigger sender to set the token free all over the network for rest of the nodes so that it can also get its turn for sending data packets. It was all about how a node get an opportunity to transfer its data packets to its desired computer networking recipient.