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PCRF vs PCEF   PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) and PCEF (Policy and Charging Enforcement Function) are both closely related functional entities, which include policy control decision making and flow based charging control functionalities. PCRF is designed to provide network control relating to the... 

Traffic Shaping vs Policing   Traffic policing and traffic shaping are two similar approaches initiated to regulate the flow of traffic from one network to another. This is done in compliance to the traffic contract made between the networks. Traffic contract is an agreement made between two networks. It defines... 

SNMP vs SMTP   In the networking arena, there have been many conflicting protocol suites. However, as of now, TCP / IP is the most used protocol stack in the world. This is because it was released at the right time under the right versioning and the protocol suite included many protocols to accommodate the... 

QoS vs CoS   In computer networks, there are several ways to improve the quality of data transmission. The obvious way is to expand the bandwidth and improve the speed. But is there any way to improve this by keeping existing hardware in packet switched networks? This concept came as, classifying data frames in... 

Internet vs Intranet vs Extranet   Computer networks differ from each other depending on their topology. Each type of network has its own characteristics which provide desired level of service to the audience. There are three comprehensive types of networks, Internet, Intranet and extranet. Each network shares... 

Fast Ethernet vs Gigabit Ethernet | Standards, Physical Media Specifications, Speed and Performance   What is Ethernet?  Ethernet in computer networks refers to a collection of standards and components, which provides a media to communicate in a Local Area Network (LAN), between network devices. There are various... 

TCP vs IP   TCP and IP are the first and the most important two communication protocols in the Internet Protocol Suite (which include all the communications protocols, i.e., set of rules and message formats implement to transfer data between computer systems, used for Internet and other networks). Sometimes... 

IP vs MAC Address   What is IP Address? In a network that uses Internet Protocol to communicate between the entities such as computers or printers of the network, the logical numerical label or address assigned to each entity is called an IP address (Internet Protocol Address). IP address serves the purpose of identifying... 

Active FTP vs Passive FTP   FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a set of Standard network rules (protocols), concerning the file transfer between two hosting computers over a TCP/IP-based network (a network that uses Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol to deliver a stream of bytes from one computer to another)... 

VLAN vs Subnet What is VLAN? VLAN is a logical group of networks created regardless of their physical location which helps to create smaller broadcast domains within a switch. For these VLANs, different ports can be assigned. Without VLANs, a switch considers all interfaces to a switch are in one broadcast domain.... 

Switch vs Hub A network device that is used to connect network segments together is called a switch. Usually, switches are used at the data link layer (layer 2 of the OSI model) to process and route data. Multilayer switches are a type of switches that process data at the network layer (layer 3 of the OSI model)... 

Static IP vs Dynamic IP An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a label made up of numbers, which is assigned to devices that are connected to a network. It is used to identify and communicate with a device on a network. Static IP is a permanent IP address assigned to a computer by an internet service provider (ISP).... 

Subnetting vs Supernetting Subnetting is the process of dividing an IP network in to sub divisions called subnets. Computers belonging to a sub network have a common group of most-significant bits in their IP addresses. So, this would break the IP address in to two parts (logically), as the network prefix and... 

Firewall vs Router Both Firewalls and Routers are devices that are connected to networks and pass through network traffic depending on some set of rules. A device or set of devices intended to allow permission to accept/deny transmissions based on a certain set of rules is called a firewall. Firewall is used... 

Fuzzy Logic vs Neural Network Fuzzy Logic belongs to the family of many-valued logic. It focuses on fixed and approximate reasoning opposed to fixed and exact reasoning. A variable in fuzzy logic can take a truth value range between 0 and 1, as opposed to taking true or false in traditional binary sets. Neural... 

Socket vs Port In the context of computer networking, a socket is an end point of a bidirectional communication that occurs in a network that is based on the internet protocol. Sockets will distribute the data packets that are coming through the communication channel to the correct application. This is done using...