The amount of data that can be sent through a particular point in a connection It's generally measured in bits per second (bps) The more bandwidth available, typically the greater amount of data that can be transferred per second A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits Bandwidth can also be thought of as the information-carrying capability of a particular television channel In PAL systems, the bandwidth limits the maximum visible frequency to 5 5 MHz, in NTSC, 4 2 MHz Microsoft MSNTV (formerly Microsoft WebTV) and AOLTV use the back channel exclusively (which is the connection via the phone line) as it uses the TV set only to view the Web through
The rate at which you can send or receive information through your connection to the Internet The range of transmission frequencies a network can use The greater the bandwidth the more information that can be transferred over that network at one time The term bandwidth also broadly includes throughput, meaning the amount of data sent
The amount of data that can be sent from one computer to another through a particular connection in a certain amount of time The more bandwidth available, the faster you are able to access information Most Americans, for example, connect to the Internet from home using modems that can transmit 56 kilobytes per second (kbps) House and Senate offices in Washington, D C connect to the Internet with connections that can transmit 1 544 megabytes (1,581 kilobytes) per second -- about the highest bandwidth currently available Back to top
a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
Bandwidth is the capacity that a telecommunications medium has for carrying data For analog or voice communication, bandwidth is measured in the difference between the upper and lower transmission frequencies expressed in cycles per second, or hertz(Hz) For digital communication, bandwidth and transmission speed are usually treated a synonyms and measured in bits per second
1 The difference in height between the highest and lowest frequencies 2 A measure of the amount of data that can be transmitted through a circuit per unit of time (second)
This is a reflection of the size or the capacity of a given transmission channel In digital transmission, bandwidth is normally described in bits per second
The width or capacity of a communications channel Analogue bandwidth is measured in Hertz (Hz) or cycles per second Digital bandwidth is the amount or volume of data that may be sent through a channel, measured in bits per second, without distortion Bandwidth should not be confused with the term "band", such as a wireless phone that operates on the 800 MHz band Bandwidth is the space it occupies on that band The relative importance of bandwidth in wireless communications is that the size, or bandwidth, of a channel will impact transmission speed Lots of data flowing through a narrow channel takes longer than the same amount of data flowing through a broader channel Back to the top
A bandwidth is the range of frequencies used for a particular telecommunications signal, radio transmission, or computer network. the amount of information that can be carried through a telephone wire, computer connection etc at one time. Measurement of the capacity of a communications signal. For digital signals, the bandwidth is the data speed or rate, measured in bits per second (bps). For analog signals, it is the difference between the highest and lowest frequency components, measured in hertz (cycles per second). For example, a modem with a bandwidth of 56 kilobits per second (Kbps) can transmit a maximum of about 56,000 bits of digital data in one second. The human voice, which produces analog sound waves, has a typical bandwidth of three kilohertz between the highest and lowest frequency sounds it can generate
The volume of data that the transmission line can carry Telephone lines have the lowest bandwidth Fiber optics have the highest bandwidth Bandwidth is usually measured in the number of bits that can be transmitted is a second, i e , Mbps
The maximum amount of data that can travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in bits per second If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth represents the width of the pipe that determines how much data can flow through it all at once
In communications, the difference between the highest and the lowest frequencies available for transmission in any given range In networking, the transmission capacity of a computer or a communications channel, stated in megabits or megabytes per second; the higher the number, the faster the data transmission takes place Bandwidth in a medium can be used in two ways When the entire bandwidth is devoted to a single data signal, the cable is operating in baseband mode When the bandwidth of a medium is used to carry several independent signals, the medium is operating in broadband mode Cable TV is an example of broadband signaling
(n ) A measure of the volume of information that can be transmitted over a communications link Technically, bandwidth refers to the width of the frequency spectrum available on a certain technology Informally, it describes the number of bits per second a network can deliver
Specifically, the difference between the highest and lowest frequencies supported by a data transmitting system However, generally used to refer to the speed and/or capacity of a transmission system Cable TV (coaxial cable) has a higher bandwidth than twisted pair (telephone lines ) A network with greater bandwidth is like a plumbing system with bigger pipes