Drawing on nearly two decades of experience in the telecommunications sector, Jeff Ansted has served as president of American Broadband & Telecommunications, a comprehensive communication services provider in Maumee, Ohio, since 2003. Catering to business and residential customers across the Midwest, Jeff Ansted and his team offer local, long-distance, high-speed internet, dedicated IP broadband, and communications and information technology services. A key concept in the last is bandwidth.
Bandwidth denotes the maximum amount of data transmittable from one point of a network to another via an internet connection in a specific amount of time. Its typical expression is as a bitrate per second.
Bandwidth often gets confused with internet speed and throughput. However, it is the maximum volume of information received every second, and the speed is how fast that information arrives or downloads. Conversely, throughput represents the amount of information from the maximum or the bandwidth reaching its destination while factoring in network speed and packet loss.
Initially measured in bits per second (bps), the advancement in information technology has shifted bandwidth measures to higher numbers expressed with prefixes, such as megabits per second (Mbps), gigabits per second (Gbps), and terabits per second (Tbps). These translate into 1 million bits per second, 1 billion bits per second, and 1 trillion bits per second. An alternative measure is bytes per second (Bps). One byte equals eight bits and can also take the same higher metric prefixes.
Bandwidth denotes the maximum amount of data transmittable from one point of a network to another via an internet connection in a specific amount of time. Its typical expression is as a bitrate per second.
Bandwidth often gets confused with internet speed and throughput. However, it is the maximum volume of information received every second, and the speed is how fast that information arrives or downloads. Conversely, throughput represents the amount of information from the maximum or the bandwidth reaching its destination while factoring in network speed and packet loss.
Initially measured in bits per second (bps), the advancement in information technology has shifted bandwidth measures to higher numbers expressed with prefixes, such as megabits per second (Mbps), gigabits per second (Gbps), and terabits per second (Tbps). These translate into 1 million bits per second, 1 billion bits per second, and 1 trillion bits per second. An alternative measure is bytes per second (Bps). One byte equals eight bits and can also take the same higher metric prefixes.
