16 Nov 16 23:00, you wrote to me:

 TK> Awesome. So there are no hubs today but the nodes themselves can sync
 TK> with each other?

no, there are still distribution systems that use fully connected
polygons... the NAB (aka North American Backbone) is one of those... the
"fidoweb" is not... then there are some networks that prefer a
hierarchy format with one central hub or a tree format where connections go
up and down the tree...

 TK> That diagram was cool BTW.

you can easily see how many connections are needed for each increase in
added systems... take a 5 hub distribution system... there's 4 connections
per hub with 10 connections in total... at 12 hubs, there's 11 connections
for each one which gives us 66 total connections... the main question is
how redundant is redundant ;)

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