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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