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Figure 13.1 An example of point-to-point connectivity
Figure 13.2 A client-server network
Figure 13.3 A typical data packet
Figure 13.4 The layers of the OSI model
Figure 13.5 Passing a message through an intermediate node
Figure 13.6 A comparison of OSI and TCP/IP
Figure 13.7 LAN topologies: (a) ring topology, (b) bus topology, (c) star topology
Figure 13.7 (continued)
Figure 13.7 (continued)
Figure 13.8 Switched Ethernet
Figure 13.9 A Switched wide area network Source: BUSINESS DATA
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Figure 13.10 Cluster models