Message Switching - Advantages

Advantages

The advantages to Message Switching are:

  • Data channels are shared among communication devices improving the use of bandwidth.
  • Messages can be stored temporarily at message switches, when network congestion becomes a problem.
  • Priorities may be used to manage network traffic.
  • Broadcast addressing uses bandwidth more efficiently because messages are delivered to multiple destinations.

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