bandwidth

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Related Topics

Images

Figure 2: Relationship (top) between bandwidth and capacity and (bottom) between P/N and capacity.

Figure 3: Exchange of bandwidth for signal-to-noise ratio.

Read Next

$Light refraction image with a cube. Prism$

How Is Light Both a Particle and a Wave?

Discover

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci

The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 16, 1945, liberated by American troops of the 80th Division. Elie Wiesel (7th from the left on the middle bunk next to the vertical post) World War II Holocaust

What Is the Origin of the Term Holocaust?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Flamingo. (flamingos, birds)

Why Are Flamingos Pink?

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

bandwidth: References & Edit History

More Articles On This Topic

Assorted References

measurement by radio telescopes
- In radio telescope: Principles of operation
place in information theory
- In information theory: Continuous communication and the problem of bandwidth
use with television channels
- In television: Bandwidth requirements

importance in

optical fibers
- In telecommunications media: Optical fibres
radar
- In radar: Pulse radar
telecommunications systems
- In telecommunication: Sampling
- In telecommunication: Source encoding

Article Contributors

Primary Contributors

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Other Encyclopedia Britannica Contributors

Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: Lifewire - What is Bandwidth? Definition, Meaning, and How Much You Need.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 22, 2023
	Add new Web site: Investopedia - Bandwidth.	Aakanksha Gaur	Dec 16, 2022
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998