May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 48m
English
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What is bandwidth?
When researching communications technologies for your edge analytics applications, the term bandwidth is mentioned quite a bit. So what exactly is bandwidth?
There are actually two different meanings of bandwidth when it comes to communications technology—an analog version and a digital version. For the analog world, bandwidth is simply a range of frequencies within a band. For example, CB radio has a bandwidth of 26.9650 MHz to 27.4050 MHz divided into 40 channels in the HF frequency band. CB channel 19 in both Canada and the United States uses the frequency 27.185 MHz.
On the digital side, bandwidth refers to the amount of data that a device can transmit in a certain amount of time measured in bits per second, or bps. ...