What are the advantages of the packet switching protocol?

Question

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No idea what this means, I got asked by some dude at work what is he sayin?

Answer 1

Oh you know!

Answer 2

Hi,

Packet switching protocols are the protocols used on the internet, like TCP/IP. these protocols break up the data into "packets" and then use their switchingcapabilities to send the packets to it's final destination ("packets do not have to take the same route, the essentiel is to recombine the packets at the end entity").

So in general, the main advantage is that the two parties of the communication don't have to use a pre-established route to send data, data are simply break up into packets and sent through different routes to the destination. you may use also some error control to resend data parts that didn't reach the destination.

good luck

Answer 3

There is no such thing as packet switching protocol.

Packet switches are a piece of network hardware. They do their thing based on the MAC address in an Ethernet packet.

Versus routers which make decisions based on the IP address in a packet.

A packet on an Ethernet network has an IP packet inside of an Ethernet packet. Both the IP and Ethernet packets have source and destination addresses. The packet switch works on the Ethernet address, router on the IP address.

Look up the OSI 7 layer model of networking. Ethernet is layer 2, IP is layer 3.

Answer 4

dunno