Throughput and bandwidth difference?

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Sameera Liaynage picture Sameera Liaynage · Jun 16, 2014 · Viewed 110.6k times · Source

The throughput of a channel is a measure of amount of data actually moves through the channel. Why is it substantially less than the bandwidth of the channel?

Answer

user3699997 picture user3699997 · Jun 16, 2014

Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can travel through a 'channel'.

Throughput is how much data actually does travel through the 'channel' successfully. This can be limited by a ton of different things including latency, and what protocol you are using.

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