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technology and computing computer networkingWhat is the difference between bit oriented and byte oriented protocol?
Hereof, what is the difference between character and bit oriented protocols?
Bit-oriented protocols transmit information without regard to character boundaries and thus handle all types of information images. Bit-oriented protocols are much less overhead-intensive, as compared to byte-oriented protocols, also known as character-oriented protocols.
Subsequently, question is, what do you mean by bit oriented protocol?
A bit-oriented protocol is a communications protocol that sees the transmitted data as an opaque stream of bits with no semantics, or meaning. Control codes are defined in terms of bit sequences instead of characters. Bit oriented protocol can transfer data frames regardless of frame contents.
byte-oriented protocol - Computer Definition A text-oriented synchronous communications protocol that handles only full bytes or characters of text, thereby requiring an entire byte to communicate a command signal to the target station.