What are advantages and disadvantages of digital communication?

There are some important advantages of digital communication are given below,

• Digital communication can be done over large distances though internet and other things.
• Digital communication gives facilities like video conferencing which save a lot of time, money and effort.
• It is easy to mix signals and data using digital techniques.
• The digital communication is fast, easier and cheaper.
• It can be tolerated the noise interference.
• It can be detect and correct error easily because of channel coding.
• Used in military application.
• It has excellent processing techniques are available for digital signals such as data compression, image processing, channel coding and equalization etc.

There are some important advantages of digital communication are given below,

• Digital communication needs synchronization in synchronous modulation.
• High power consumption.
• It required more bandwidth as compared to analog systems.
• It has sampling error.
• Complex circuit, more sophisticated device making is also disadvantage of digital system.