While communicating on an unsecured medium like the internet, you have to be careful about the confidentiality of the information you are sharing with other. The are two techniques use to preserve the confidentiality of your message, Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption. The fundamental difference that distinguishes symmetric and asymmetric encryption is that symmetric encryption allows encryption and decryption of the message with the same key. On the other hand, asymmetric encryption uses … [Read more...]

Analog and Digital are the different forms of signals. Signals are used to carry information from one device to another. Analog signal is a continuous wave that keeps on changing over a time period. Digital signal is discrete in nature. The fundamental difference between analog and digital signal is that analog signal is represented by the sine waves whereas, the digital signal is represented by square waves. Lets us learn some more differences between analog and digital signal with the help … [Read more...]

Modem and router are the networking devices. Where a modem connects your computer or your network to the telephone line (Internet Service Provider) for accessing the internet. A router is meant for connecting different networks together. The basic difference between modem and router is that modem necessary for connecting your computer network to the internet whereas, a router is essential to direct the path to the traffic of data packets on the network. Let us study some more differences … [Read more...]

Circuit switching and packet switching are the two switching methods that are used to connect the multiple communicating devices with one another. Circuit Switching was particularly designed for voice communication and it was less suitable for data transmission. So, a better solution evolved for data transmission called Packet switching. The main difference between circuit switching and packet switching is that Circuit Switching is connection oriented whereas, Packet Switching is … [Read more...]

Router and switch both are the connecting devices in networking. A router is used to choose the smallest path for a packet to reach its destination. A switch stores the arrived packet, process it to determine its destination address and forwards the packet to a specific destination. The basic difference between a router and a switch is that a router connects different networks together whereas, a switch connect multiple devices together to create a network. Let us study some other differences … [Read more...]

MAC and IP are the addresses that uniquely defines a device and a connection in a network. A MAC address is a number assigned to the NIC card by the manufacturer. IP address is a number assigned to the connection in a network. The basic difference between MAC address and IP address is that a MAC address uniquely identifies a device that wants to take part in a network. On the other hand, an IP address uniquely defines a connection of a network with an interface of a device. Let us study some … [Read more...]

Cc and Bcc are fields that contains the list of the recipients of an email. The Cc field is used when we want a second party to have a record of an email that is sent to the primary recipient and let the primary recipients have knowledge of this. The Bcc field is used when we want a third party to keep the record of an email sent to primary recipients, the recipients of Cc without their knowledge. The basic difference between Cc and Bcc is that the recipients of Cc are visible to all, on the … [Read more...]

There are three modes of transmission simplex, half duplex, and full duplex. Transmission mode describes the direction, of flow of signal between two connected devices. The main difference between simplex, half duplex, and full duplex is that in a simplex mode of transmission the communication is unidirectional whereas, in the half-duplex mode of transmission the communication is two directional but the channel is alternately used by the both the connected device. On the other hand, in the … [Read more...]

The point-to-point and Multipoint are two types of line configuration. Both of them describes a method to connect two or more communication devices in a link. The main difference between point-to-point and multipoint connection is that in a point-to-point connection the link is only between two devices i.e. a sender and a receiver. On the other hand, in a multipoint connection, the link is between a sender and multiple receivers. Lets us study further the difference between point-to-point and … [Read more...]

Flow control and congestion control, both are the traffic controlling mechanism but, both controls the traffic at different situations. The main difference between flow control and congestion control is that the flow control is a mechanism that controls the traffic between sender and receiver. On the other hand, the congestion control mechanism controls the traffic that is placed by the transport layer into the network. Let us study the difference between flow control and congestion control … [Read more...]