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Question 9
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An industrial facility is planning a network of 12 telemetry devices. They are evaluating two different network topologies as illustrated below:

Network Topologies

  1. A fully connected mesh topology (where every device is connected directly to every other device via a dedicated duplex cable).
  2. A star topology (where all 12 devices are connected directly to a single central switch via dedicated duplex cables).

Let M M\,M be the total number of physical cabling links required for the fully connected mesh topology, and S S\,S be the total number of physical cabling links required for the star topology.

Calculate the difference M−SM - SM−S.

120120120

545454

132132132

555555

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