Differences betwwen analog and digital communication
Analog
In analog communication, the
signal can take up voltage level
corresponding to any real number
When corrupted with noise it is
difficult to recover the correct
value
repeaters in analog
communication are amplifiers
which also amplifies noise
thereby degrading the quality of
the system
since the voltage can take
infinite levels, it would need
infinite bits to represent data
analog data is continuous time
continuous amplitude data
Digital
In digital communication signal can take up
only one among two voltage levels
corresponding to 1 and 0.
when corrupted by channel noise it is
possible to recover the original
information by using a suitable threshold
at the receiver
repeaters in digital communication are wave
regenerators which produce new waveforms
after recovering the original information
from the received waveform and hence noise
does not accumulate
since the voltage can take only finite
number of values, it requires finite number
of bits for propagation
Digital data is discrete time discrete
amplitude data.
digital communication is more efficient in
terms of noise immunity and quality