channel
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physical or logical connection used for transmission of information
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- communications media
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- has characteristic
- channel capacity
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Encyclopedic overview
Different types of physical transmission media supporting communication channels
A communication channel refers either to a physical transmission medium such as a wire, or to a logical connection over a multiplexed medium such as a radio channel in telecommunications and computer networking. A channel is used for information transfer of, for example, a digital bit stream, from one or several senders to one or several receivers. A channel has a certain capacity for transmitting information, often measured by its bandwidth in Hz or its data rate in bits per second.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “channel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.