hybrid networks use a combination of any two or more topologies in such a way that the resulting network does not exhibit one of the standard topologies (e.g., bus, star, ring, etc.). for example, a tree network connected to a tree network is still a tree network, but two star networks connected together exhibit a hybrid network topology. a hybrid topology is always produced when two different basic network topologies are connected. two common examples for hybrid network are: "star ring network" and "star bus network"