What is Communication?

Communication means 2-way talking, such as in a network where computers talk to each other to transfer data from one computer to another. Communication can also mean one station talking to many stations at once, or you can have many stations talking to many stations at once.

Example: A computer connected to the Internet via a Wi-Fi connection participates in data communication by using a wireless medium to send and receive data from multiple remote servers. The computer connects to the router and asks for its IP address. Router responds with the local IP address of the computer and connects it to the Internet. The computer requests access to a certain server for communication, and TCP/IP packets travel through multiple routers until it reaches the destination server. The server responds back with a message which gets back to the computer by following the same steps.

Communication and Transmission are the ways in which computers use for talking. Communication provides two-way talking whereas Transmission provides only one way of communication. In this article, we will discuss Communication, Transmission and we will also see the differences between Communication and Transmission.