| Ethernet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4564 words) |
 | Also, as was the case with most other high-speed buses, Ethernet segments had to be terminated with a resistor at both ends. |
| People recognized the advantages of cabling in a star topology (primarily that only faults at the star point will result in a badly partitioned network), and network vendors started creating repeaters having multiple ports, thus reducing the number of repeaters required at the star point; multiport Ethernet repeaters became known as "hubs". |
| Also as twisted-pair ethernet is point-to-point and terminated inside the hardware the total empty panel space required around a port is much reduced (making it easier to design hubs with lots of ports and to integrate ethernet onto computer motherboards). |
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