Can anyone help explain the clear distinction between communication systems (or communications as a whole) and digital signal processing (DSP)?

Question

So I know that communications is a broad field and DSP is more or less considered a tool, but can someone who is more familiar with either of these fields explain it to me in more detail without it being too complicated?

In: Engineering

Answer 1

Communications systems is a high level understanding of technologies that encompasses a variety of protocols as a means to transmit data.

DSP is the specific technique of translating digital or analog signals into deciferable data.