Answer to Question #141362 in Computer Networks for bOWE

Question

Surgeons in a hospital want to make use of video
conferencing with experts when performing new
or unfamiliar surgeries. The networking solution
needs to provide very high reliability and speed.
Which switching method should be used and why?

Answer 1

Packet switching should be used to transfer data in videoconferencing, teleconferencing etc.

In this method, message are broken into small pieces of packet and each packet includes a source file and header file. There are many packages so they may admire different routes for going from source to destination.

This mehod is useful since Its bandwidth is reduced because data is splitting into various paths.

Also If the communication between source and destination is lost on certain path, then there are certain number of another path through which we can transfer data.