{"id":4621,"date":"2022-08-09T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2022-08-09T12:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:05:11","slug":"what-is-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/networking\/what-is-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"What is bandwidth ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is used to measure the maximum capacity of a wired or wireless communications link to transmit data over a network connection in a given amount of time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Every signal has a limit of lower range frequency and upper range frequency.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bandwidth is typically represented in the number of bits, kilobits, gigabits or megabits that can be transmitted in 1 second.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is typically done using firmware or software and a network interface.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bandwidth commonly measures utilities include the Test TCP utility (TTCP) and PRTG Network Monitor.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this utilities TTCP measures throughput on an IP network between two hosts and PRTG\u00a0can measure traffic between different interfaces then provides a graphical interface and charts for measuring bandwidth trends over longer periods of time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">To measure the bandwidth by the total traffic sent and received across a specific period of time is counted.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is usually measured in bits transferred per second through a link or path.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are common units bandwidth are as follows Bits Per Second(BPS), Megabits Per Second (MBPS), Gigabits Per Second (GBPS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1182\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth.png 1182w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-1024x624.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-768x468.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-390x238.png 390w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-820x499.png 820w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/what-is-bandwidth-1180x719.png 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1182px) 100vw, 1182px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is used to measure the maximum capacity of a wired or wireless communications link to transmit data over a network connection in a given amount of time. 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