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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4DASE_enSE223SE223&...

http://www.sellntell.com/defined2.htm
Home Run: (Not the baseball type). Phone system wiring where the individual cables run from phone directly back to the central switching equipment. Home run cabling can be thought of as "star cabling". Every cable radiates out from the central equipment. All PBXs and virtually all key systems work on home run cabling. Some LANs (local area networks) work on home run wiring. (See Daisy Chain..)

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Ethernet is a classic LAN protocol originally designed for point-to-point star cabling topology. Physically setting up a standard Ethernet network in a ring structure would cause an immediate network breakdown as the data packets would travel around the ring infinitely, and multiply themselves while going around in useless circles! One way around this would be to use network mapping protocols like Spanning Tree; these can detect redundant paths in the network, but they react slowly to fault conditions and are not optimised to handle ring structures. Building fast, robust and reliable ring networks using Ethernet requires special additional functionality to handle the failure recovery process. This behaviour is controlled by one device in the ring, the so-called ring master.
http://ethernet.industrial-networking.com/articles/articledi...

You could put it like this - see the reference articles. Or you could write ". . . to be cabled as a network with star topology".