Tariq is a physics professor. He needs to share lots of data with his colleagues on the other side of the country at an affordable price. What type of switching should he use?

Message switching is well suited for sending large amounts of data over long distances at relatively low cost. It stores a message and forwards it along the network, rather than keeping a dedicated connection open for the entire transmission as circuit switching does. Therefore, Tariq should use message switching.

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