Assignment No. 1
Rami Mansour Aljuhani 130183364
Question No. 1
Compare the telephone network and the Internet. What are the similarities? What are the differences?
The telephone network and the Internet are both networks, they both send signals from end to end. The telephone network is circuit switched and the Internet is a mixture of several technologies. Both uses equipment’s to send and receive. Telephone uses telephone switches on the Central Office, while the Internet uses layer 3 and layer 2 switches, multiplexers, frame relay switches, routers, satellites and a couple of other stuff.
Similarities - both use cables and fiber, both allow end-to-end transmission of data.
Differences - telephone network uses