{"id":28354,"date":"2017-09-06T01:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=28354"},"modified":"2017-09-06T01:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T19:35:02","slug":"differences-virtual-circuits-datagram-networks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/differences-virtual-circuits-datagram-networks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Differences between Virtual Circuits & Datagram Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Computer networks that provide connection-oriented service are called Virtual Circuits while those providing connection-oriented services are called as Datagram networks. For prior knowledge, the Internet which we use is actually based on Datagram network (coonectionless) at network level as all packets from a source to a destination do not follow same path.
\nLet us see what are the highlighting differences between these two hot debated topics here:<\/p>\n

Virtual Circuits-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. It is connection-oriented simply meaning that there is a reservation of resources like buffers, CPU, bandwidth,etc. for the time in which the newly setup VC is going to be used by a data transfer session.<\/li>\n
  2. First packet goes and reserves resources for the subsequent packets which as a result follow the same path for the whole connection time.<\/li>\n
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  4. Since all the packets are going to follow the same path, a global header is required only for the first packet of the connection and other packets generally don\u2019t require global headers.<\/li>\n
  5. Since data follows a particular dedicated path, packets reach inorder to the destination.<\/li>\n
  6. From above points, it can be concluded that Virtual Circuits are highly reliable means of transfer.<\/li>\n
  7. Since each time a new connection has to be setup with reservation of resources and extra information handling at routers, its simply costly to implement Virtual Circuits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


    \nDatagram Networks :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. It is connectionless service. There is no need of reservation of resources as there is no dedicated path for a connection session.<\/li>\n
    2. All packets are free to go to any path on any intermediate router which is decided on the go by dynamically changing routing tables on routers.<\/li>\n
    3. Since every packet is free to choose any path, all packets must be associated with a header with proper information about source and the upper layer data.<\/li>\n
    4. The connectionless property makes data packets reach destination in any order, means they need not reach in the order in which they were sent.<\/li>\n
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    6. Datagram networks are not reliable as Virtual Circuits.<\/li>\n
    7. But it is always easy and cost efficient to implement datagram networks as there is no extra headache of reserving resources and making a dedicated each time an application has to communicate.<\/li>\n
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