What is Transmission?

Transmission is only one way of communication, which is the computer can only talk out and not receive anything. The transmission would be half of the communication where you would send out a packet to the network and then the other half of the communication would use the receiver to accept the packet as it returns. Well, your computer that uses Transmission is a software radio station where you only transmit and receive input.

Example: The Random Access Memory (RAM) or hard disk performs data transmission by sending data to the processor. Data bus is used to transfer data from RAM or hard disk to CPU. Data bus is bi-directional i.e. it can carry data in both directions- from memory to CPU and vice versa but at a time it only transmits data in single direction. Data transmission from memory to CPU is a one way process that is carried out by data bus.

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.