What Does Token Bus Network Mean?
A token bus network is much like a token-ring network except that the ends of the network do not meet to form the ring. Instead, the network is still terminated at both ends.
Techopedia Explains Token Bus Network
Token bus networks are similar in concept to token ring networks in essence but different in practice. For one, it uses a different topology, a bus topology, and the method for passing tokens is different. Compared to a token ring which passes the token and data to the next physical node in the ring, token bus networks utilize a virtual ring where all the nodes have different sequence addresses which the token and data have to pass through. The physical location of the nodes will not matter in the token bus topology; it is the sequence address of the nodes that matter where the token would go next until it reaches its destination.
