Benefits of a ring topology

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So far I have got:

Easy to troubleshoot- A station will know when a cable fault has occured because it will stop receiving traffice from it's upstream neigbour.

Degrades gracefully. Network traffic gradually slows down when busy opposed to ethernet which grounds to a halt.

Anybody got any others?

 

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Minimal hardware requirement.

 

Cheers Gav. Of course no hubs, switches etc

 

Timing is extremely predictable since the token's circuit around the ring occurs at precise intervals.

 

Oh, that's another

I have also realised that although token ring sounds painfully slow compared to csma it degrades gracefully

 

um, although bandwidth at its current standards is less, i understood token ring to have lower latency than its CSMA/CD equivilent?

could be wrong