When working with communications, is it more important to detect or control errors and why is this the case? Solution In communication network, the importance of error control and detecion is as follow: The error control purpose is the make sure the reciever gets the same information send by the sender only.Since communication channel is unreliable error control plays impoetant role. Error control often involves identofications of errors or corrections of data. Error Detection: We have different error detection schemes,which allows to identiy the error. The detectionof error usually depends on the error type,type of transmission. such as single bit errors or burst errors(continous bit) . Some of the widely used error-detecting codes are the parity, block sum check, and the cyclic redundancy check codes..