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The connection to the computing term is that, according to Hartley's law, the digital data rate limit, or channel capacity, of a physical communication link is proportional to its bandwidth in hertz.
 
The connection to the computing term is that, according to Hartley's law, the digital data rate limit, or channel capacity, of a physical communication link is proportional to its bandwidth in hertz.
  
See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(signal_processing)Bandwidth (signal processing)].
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See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(signal_processing) Bandwidth (signal processing)] @ Wikipedia.
  
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
  
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing) Bandwidth (computing)] @ Wikipedia
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing) Bandwidth (computing)] @ Wikipedia

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In computing, bandwidth is the bit-rate of available or consumed information capacity expressed typically in metric multiples of bits per second.

Variously, bandwidth may be characterized as:

  • Network bandwidth
  • Data bandwidth
  • Digital bandwidth

Bandwidth in other fields

The term bandwidth is used differently in such fields as:

  • Signal processing
  • Wireless communications
  • Modem data transmission
  • Digital communications
  • Electronics

In these fields, bandwidth is used to refer to analog signal bandwidth measured in hertz, meaning the frequency range between lowest and highest attainable frequency while meeting a well-defined impairment level in signal power.

The connection to the computing term is that, according to Hartley's law, the digital data rate limit, or channel capacity, of a physical communication link is proportional to its bandwidth in hertz.

See: Bandwidth (signal processing) @ Wikipedia.

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