Throughput and Bandwidth
Super servers, high-capacity workstations, and multimedia
applications have also fueled the need for higher capacity bandwidths.
The examples on this slide shows that the need for throughput capacity grows as a result
of a desire to transmit more voice, video, and graphics. The rate at which this
information may be sent (transmission speed) is dependent how data is
transmitted and the medium used for transmission. The “how” of this equation is
satisfied by a transmission protocol.
Each protocol runs at a different speed. Two terms are
used to describe this speed: throughput
rate and bandwidth.
The throughput
rate is the rate of information arriving at, and possibly passing through, a
particular point in a network.
In this post, the term bandwidth means the total capacity of a given network medium
(twisted pair, coaxial, or fiber-optic cable) or protocol.
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Bandwidth is
also used to describe the difference between the highest and the lowest
frequencies available for network signals. This quantity is measured in
Megahertz (MHz).
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The bandwidth
of a given network medium or protocol is measured in bits per second (bps).
Some of the available bandwidth specified for a given medium or protocol is used up in overhead,
including control characters. This overhead reduces the capacity available for
transmitting data.
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