channel capacity

Definition

› COMMUNICATIONS, IT the maximum rate at which data or other types of information can be carried over a cable or channel: the different channel capacities of wireless networks → See also bandwidth

(Definition of channel capacity noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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