BroadBand

A transmission medium capable of supporting a wide

range of frequencies, typically from audio up to video
frequencies. It can carry multiple signals by dividing
the total capacity of the medium into multiple,
independent bandwidth channels, where each channel
operates only on a specific range of frequencies.
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Broadband comes from the words "broad bandwidth"
and is used to describe a high-capacity, two-way link
between an end user and access network suppliers
capable of supporting full-motion, interactive video
applications.
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Capable of handling frequencies greater than those
required for high-grade voice communications.
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Telecommunication that provides multiple channels of
data over a single communications medium.
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Communications channel with a bandwidth broader
than a voice-grade channel.
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A way of transmitting large amounts of data, voice, and
video that is greater than telephony networks. In ISDN,
broadband channels support rates above the primary
rate (1.544 Mbps or 2.048 Mbps). (See wideband and
narrowband)
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High-speed transmission. The term is used to define
the speed of communication lines or services and most
commonly refers to T1 (1.544 Mbit/s) rates or better,
even though the actual rate may be much lower or
higher, depending on the application.
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A broad bandwidth communications channel capable of
supporting high capacity ISDN services or other
integrated voice, data and video applications.
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(1) Transmission facility having a bandwidth greater
than 20kHz; capable of high-speed data transmission.
(2) Analog transmission technique used with data and
video transmissions that provides multiple channels for
users through frequency division multiplexing.
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A transmission method in which the networks range of
transmission frequencies is divided into separate
channels and each channel is used to send a different
signal. Broadband is often used to send different types
of signals simultaneously.
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The term applied to networks having bandwidths
significantly greater than that found in telephony
networks. Broadband systems are capable of carrying a
large number of moving images or a vast quantity of
data simultaneously. Broadband techniques usually
depend on coaxial or optical cable.
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When the bandwidth of a signal is large, it can
simultaneously carry many channels of information. For
example, fiber optic cable has a very high bandwidth
and is referred to as broadband.
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Broadband refers to communications medium that uses
wide-bandwidth channels for sending and receiving
large amounts of data, video or voice information.
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A classification of the information capacity or bandwidth
of a communication channel. Broadband is generally
taken to mean bandwidth higher than 2 Mbps.
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A term for high-speed, high-capacity Internet and data
connections.
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is type of data transmission in which a single medium
(wire) can carry several channels at once including
voice, data and video simultaneously. It is also a
general term for different types of high-speed, high-
bandwidth connections to the Internet, including Cable
and DSL.
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Sometimes referred to as a wideband transmission,
broadband refers to telecommunications that provide a
variety of channels and data over a single
communication medium (wire). Today there are a wide
variety of broadband technologies available in most
areas. Two of the more commonly used technologies
are cable and DSL broadband.
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A type of data transmission in which a single medium
(wire) can carry several channels at once. Cable TV, for
example, uses broadband transmission. In contrast,
baseband transmission allows only one signal at a time.
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A data transmission technique allowing multiple
simultaneous signals to share the bandwidth of a single
physical cable.
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Communications channels which use modulated carrier
signals for data, like radio waves, and are therefore
faster and more capacious than baseband (ie. they
have a higher bandwidth). Examples are satellite and
fibre optic cable systems.
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Data transmission of greater than 56 Kbps (kilo-bytes
per second) that can carry multiple signals at once. The
larger the bandwidth of a carrier, the greater the
amount of information it can carry.
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A method of transmission in which data flows from
source to destination in a different form that existed at
the source. Although typically referring to copper, it
denotes transmission facilities capable of handling a
wide range of frequencies simultaneously, thus
permitting multiple channels in data systems, rather
than direct modulation.
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Broadband" refers to a type of network connection that
supports a very high bit rate, as opposed to
"narrowband," which supports a lower bit rate. The
higher the bit rate, which is a measure of speed of
transmission of bits per second (bps), the faster the
transmission will occur in a given period of time.
Deliverd via DSL or cable service, bandwidth: >128 Kilo
Bits per second (KBPS). ...
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A term used to describe a channel with more bandwidth
than a standard voice grade channel. Broadband
channels are used to carry multiple high-speed voice
and data transmissions on a common communications
path.
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a service or system requiring transmission channels
capable of supporting rates greater than the Integrated
Services Digital Network (ISDN) primary rate.
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of or relating to or being a communications network in
which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by
multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or
video)
responding to or operating at a wide band of
frequencies; "a broadband antenna"
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Broadband in general refers to data transmission where
multiple pieces of data are sent simultaneously to
increase the effective rate of transmission. In network
engineering this term is used for methods where two or
more signals share a medium.