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CHANDNI VIJAYVARGIYA
HARSHITA YADAV
HIMANSHI CHARAN
SALONI LADDHA
SHIVANI JHANWAR
SHWETA LALANI
• Switching is a process moving data from one interface
and delivering it through another interface, selecting
the best paths between machines that stores messages.
• The fundamental purpose of a communication system is
to exchange information between two or more devices.
• A switched network consists of a service of interlinked
nodes called switches, switches are hardware and
software device capable of creating temporary
connections b/w two or more devices linked to a
switch but not to each other.
• CIRCUIT SWITCHING

• PACKET SWITCHING

• MESSAGE SWITCHING
• Circuit switching is the dominant technology for
both voice and data communication.
• Communication via circuit switching in data
communication networks implies that there is
dedicated electrical, communication path between
two ports or hosts.
• The electrical path may be realized by physical wires
or co axial cables or radio or satellite
communication.
• EX:-
Telephone network connection.
• Packet-switched describes the type of network in which
relatively small units of data called packets are routed through
a network based on the destination address contained within
each packet.

• Breaking communication down into packets allows the same

data path to be shared among many users in the network.

• This type of communication between sender and receiver is

known as connectionless .

• The control information should at least contain:

– Destination Address
– Source Address
•Datagram
•Virtual circuit
• In Datagram packet switching each packet is a self- contained unit
with complete addressing information attached.

• This fact allows packets to take a variety of possible paths

through the network.

• So the packets, each with the same destination address, do

not follow the same route, and they may arrive out of
sequence at the exit point node (or the destination).

• Reordering is done at the destination point based on

the sequence number of the packets.
•In the Virtual Circuit approach a pre-planned route is established
before any packet are sent.
•There is a call set up before the exchange of data.
•All packets follow the same route and therefore arrive in
sequence.
•Each packet contains a virtual circuit identifier instead
of
destination address
•More set up time
•No routing decisions required for each packet - Less routing or
processing time
•Susceptible to data loss in the face of link or node failure
•Clear request to drop circuit
•Not a dedicated path
•A message is a logical unit of information and can be of
any length.
•In message switching, if a station wishes to send a
message to another station, it first adds the destination
address to the message.
•Message switching does not establish a dedicated path
between the two communicating devices i.e. no direct link
is established between sender and receiver.
• Each message is treated as an independent unit.
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KAVITA ROY
MA’AM