Communicating Over The Network

The Elements of Communication Communication begins with a message, or information, that must be sent from one individual or device to another using many different communication methods. All of these methods have 3 elements in common: - message source, or sender - destination, or receiver - a channel Communicating The Messages Data is divided into smaller parts during transmission - Segmentation The benefits of doing so: - Many different conversations can be interleaved on the network. The process used to interleave the pieces of separate conversations together on the network is called multiplexing. - Increase the reliability of network communications. The separate pieces of each message need not travel the same pathway across the network from source to destination