How does message switching fit in this comparison table here?
Are these 4 switching work at different layers in the OSI model?
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Are these 4 switching work at different layers in the OSI model?
A message could be circuit switched or packet switched. You would probably classify message switching as an application layer construct.
Packet switching can break a large message into smaller packets to be sent, but a message may be small enough to fit into a single packet, too.
A circuit could carry a message over a circuit switched network.
It's kind of like comparing peer-to-peer routing with IP routing. They are not equivalent since one is application layer routing, and the other is layer-3 routing on which the application layer routing may happen.
Packet switching can break a large message into smaller packets to be sent, but a message may be small enough to fit into a single packet, too.
When you say it, what layer is responsable for that? IP Fragmentation?