Talk:Spoke–hub distribution paradigm/Archive 1

Rahat
Who is this Rahat ? (I'm not even completely sure if this was supposed to be a quote.) Taw 08:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

German version
I only know a smattering of German, and so am daunted by looking at the Deutsch version, but I see that it boasts of a much better design, more par with other Wikipedia articles in quality. Someone could take the relatively simple task of translating it, or at least using it as a guide for expanding the stub English version.

Italian
On that topic, I also noted that the Italian version hinted at information which would also be of use in the article-whole. (However, I know even less Italian than I know German.) Just food for thought. JamesEG 06:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Translation
I got it translated, however I did not get a chance to edit it at all on here. If someone could clear up some of the wording, we have something to work from on the main page of this topic. It is [] Ksax 04:42, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Request for list
I'd like to see a list of the major hubs used by various companies. Unfree (talk) 15:51, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

add a layman's definition?
i'm trying to sort out the "hub" disambiguation page, which is how i came upon this article. i'm wondering if someone could start the article with a simple definition, in layman's terms... It is also used as hub-and-spoke for integration software, see this "XI 3.0 provides hub-and-spoke messaging (SOAP/XML-based)"

The Hub-and-Spoke term also refers to the centralized fleet management system utilized by the majority of airline operators.


 * "For a network of N nodes, only N-1 routes are necessary to connect all nodes; that is, the complexity is O(N). This compares favorably to the N*(N-1) nodes, or O(N2), that would be required to connect each node to every other node in a point-to-point network." huuuuuuuuh? I'm really interested in this topic, and i'm wondering if somebody might be a wiki-pal and dumb it down for me, or even, add a diagram?  pleeease?  be a pal! Taco325i 17:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

"Node" and "point" are being used for "hub," "origin," and "destination" (in other words, both hubs and endpoints), and "route" means "spoke." N stands for the number of points. O is an unspecified function which gives the "complexity" (whatever that is) of a network. O(N) indicates the complexity of a network (presumably a hub-and-spoke network) of N nodes. I suspect the meaning of complexity in this context is very simple, but I hope somebody more familiar with the issue will join the discussion. "O(N2)," which is actually O(N-squared), is being used to indicate that the complexity of a network in which every point is connected to every other point is a function (the same function) not of N, but of the square of N. In other words, consider a network of four towns in New England, four in Mexico, four in Alaska, and four in Kansas. In each group of towns, pick one to act as a hub, making the rest endpoints. (The hubs themselves may also be considered endpoints; I don't know.) Consider Kansas City, the hub in Kansas, to be a super hub, because traffic among the other hubs passes through it. Since there are sixteen points, it would take a certain number of routes to join each point to every other point (15 + 14 + 13 +...), but a lesser number of routes to connect all the endpoints to hubs, and each hub to the super hub. Perhaps if understood the terminology better and had more fingers, I might be able to tackle the math. Unfree (talk) 16:21, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Spoke-hub or Hub-spoke
The number of hits are three times more for Hub-spoke. So maybe move it til Hub-spoke distribution paradigm? --EvenT (talk) 08:27, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Overload
"It may be difficult or impossible to handle occasional periods of high demand between two spokes." I wonder whether "spokes" should be changed to "hubs." High traffic between two spokes would suggest that the hub between them experiences the overload, whereas high traffic between two hubs puts the pressure on a spoke. What's the intended message? Unfree (talk) 15:49, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * It's meant to be spokes. The point is that if traffic is high between two spokes, then a direct point-to-point link between them would alleviate the load on the hub. The 'pure' spoke-hub model has ONE hub. 131.111.245.195 (talk) 14:10, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Re-added drawbacks
I undid the deletion of the entire section on drawbacks by 69.116.217.179. Even if the section has issues, Such a deletion can only be considered seriously biased. 131.111.245.195 (talk) 14:10, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Transportation section
I'm overhauling the "Transportation" section and replacing it with content based on a translation of the German Wikipedia article because the current section doesn't adequately describe the spoke-hub model among various transportation modes. The current section states, "The hub-and-spoke model is used in many highway and rapid transit systems," followed by an arbitrary list. --Apollo1758 (talk) 19:37, 5 June 2010 (UTC)