An organizational or network architecture where a central server, headquarters, or database (the hub) routes communications and manages resources out to multiple satellite nodes (the spokes).

Used by enterprise architects in whiteboard sessions to make drawing circles and lines between server boxes look like a revolutionary logistical strategy.

• Whiteboard Geometry: Giving a standard central-server network setup an old-fashioned bicycle wheel metaphor.
• Consulting Diagram Padding: Treating basic database routing as an advanced management framework.
• House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like having a main power strip plugged into the wall with five cords running to different lamps and calling it a "hub-and-spoke lighting architecture."

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977): The Rebel Alliance operates from a central hidden base on Yavin 4 acting as the operational hub, dispatching starfighter squadrons out along tactical spokes to attack the Death Star trench.

A central server that connects and manages multiple remote systems or offices.

“We migrated our remote branch databases into a secure hub-and-spoke model.”

“All of our regional stores send their daily sales data back to a single central server at headquarters.”