Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 7 - Exercises - Page 391: 12

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Having minimum amount of links in the network is very risky because even if a single link fails, the whole network becomes disconnected hence most networks add extra links to prevent the complete network from failing by just a few failures. Also minimum number of links might make the network very congested hence the additional links are added to provide alternate paths.
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