Bandwidth (computing)

In computer network and computer science, digital bandwidth or just bandwidth means the amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a certain period of time.^[1] It is measured as a bit rate expressed in bits per second (bits/s) or multiples of it (kbit/s Mbit/s etc.)^[1]

Digital bandwidth should not be confused with:

• Network throughput: which is the average rate of successful data transfer through a connection.
• Data transfer: which is the quantity of data transferred over a given period of time.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "bandwidth". SearchEnterpriseWAN.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.