Difference between telephone network and internet?

Answer 1

Both are almost similar except internet service is more powerful than telephone network in a sense it never looses its ability to reach and you can even send ur messages to someone not online.. mean offline messages e-mails, attachment and much more..

there is difference in the hardware used between, in telephone we use telephone switches at central office but in internet more powerful and intelligent devices are used like layer 3 and layer 2 devices such as router, layer 3 switches, gateways etc

hope u understand

Answer 2

Telephone Network- The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the network of the world's public IP-based packet-switched networks. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital, and now includes mobile as well as fixed telephones.

The PSTN is largely governed by technical standards created by the ITU-T, and uses E.163/E.164 addresses (more commonly known as telephone numbers) for addressing.

Internet- The Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).