Communication Standards & Protocols

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Standard/Communication Standard

A standard is a set of specifications(guidelines) for hardware or software used in the making of products, agreed upon by a national or international authority or recognised body or by general consent or academic body or industry group etc.
A standard is accepted or followed by most of the parties that use/implement it.
A standard makes it possible for different manufacturers’ to make the product according to the defined standard so that it can be used easily anywhere.
In another words, a standard makes it possible for many manufacturers to create products that are compatible with one another.
Communication Standard is a specific type of standard mainly applied in communiction or network sectors.
An example of standards would be 802 standards for ethernet, 3GPP for mobile communication etc.

Protocols help to communicate and share data between two/more computers by conveying a specific set of information before the completion of successful communication.

Protocols are the set of rules and encoding specifications which are used by computers on the network to describe how to exchange data among the components of the network using the related hardware and software entities for sending and receiving data in proper way.

Protocols are used by two or more parties in a system when they interact with one another.
Protocols are necessary for a standard system for normal communication.
Protocols make it possible for the various components of a network to communicate with each other for successful transmission.
Communication protocols define exactly how data is exchanged among the body of the system and the expected behavior.
Examples of some common protocols are – HTTP, TCP/IP, DHCP, ICMP, ARP, RARP etc.