ASSIGNMENT: SWITCHING TECHNIQUES
1. Compare circuit switching, packet switching and message switching techniques. Discuss the
functions, advantages and disadvantages of each technique over the other. [15]
2. Consider the difference between datagram switching and virtual-circuit switching networks.
Explain how the following aspects of communication are impacted (or why they are not
impacted) by these different switching techniques:
i. Delays encountered by data travelling from sender to receiver
ii. The order packets would arrive at the receiver
iii. The reliability of packets being delivered to the receiver. [10]
