Question

With the _______ network topology, reliability is the major advantage while high cost is the disadvantage.

Answer 1

With the mesh network topology, reliability is the major advantage while high cost is the disadvantage.
Because of its reliability advantage mesh topology is used in backbone networks, because of the redundancy the failure of one node in the network does not result in failure of the entire network. However lot of cabling is required and the cost and maintenance requirements are high.