Broadband

= Broadband  =

The term broadband is used to describe a type of data transmission in which a single medium (wire) can carry several channels at once. Cable TV, for example, uses broadband transmission. In contrast, baseband transmission allows only one signal at a time. Most communication between computers, including the majority of local-area network, use baseband communications. An exception is B-ISDN network, which employ broadband transmission.