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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

bus network

View image A type of local area network, a bus network has each of the devices connected directly to a main communications line, called a bus, along which signals are sent. The bus will frequently be a twin cable of some kind, for example, coaxial cable.

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cablecoaxial cablenetwork cablesignalnetworklocal area network (LAN) (1)network topologyring networkstar networkpeer-to-peer network
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