This feels like one of those questions that feels like it’s supremely simple knowledge, yet I cannot seem to figure it out.
As a quick example, CAT6a has a data throughput of 10gbps, and a bandwidth of 500mhz, data throughput is rather simple to comprehend, it can send 10gbps, and no more. But bandwidth? Can you use it to calculate latency of a cable of a given length? Can you use it to calculate the maximum endpoints?
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In electrical communications, bandwidth is the distance between the upper and lower corner frequencies of a channel. The corner frequency is the point at which frequency components begin to become attenuated, reflected, or are filtered out. This is in frequency domain, not time domain. When this happens, the signal as it is received at the receiver is distorted when compared to the signal as it was sent by the transmitter. If it’s too distorted, it becomes unintelligible.
Higher bandwidth on the transmission medium allows for either higher resolution transmission symbols, a greater rate of transmission symbols, or both. This had the effect of increasing the maximum data rate over the transmission medium.
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