capacity

<communications>

The maximum possible data transfer rate of a communications channel under ideal conditions. The total capacity of a channel may be shared between several independent data streams using some kind of multiplexing, in which case, each stream's data rate may be limited to a fixed fraction of the total capacity.

Last updated: 2001-05-22

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Capability Maturity Model ♦ capacitor ♦ capacity ♦ CAPI ♦ Cap'n Crunch

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