It is a hierarchical topology, in which there are multiple branches and each branch can have one or more basic topologies like star, ring and bus. Such topologies are usually realised in WANs where multiple LANs are connected. Those LANs may be in the form of a ring, bus or star. In figure, a hybrid topology is shown connecting 4-star topologies in a bus.
In this type of network, data transmitted from source first reaches the centralised device and from there the data passes through every branch where each branch can have links for more nodes.
A hybrid topology
