From the course: Network Quality of Service (QoS) Foundations: Managing Network Traffic
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Bandwidth
From the course: Network Quality of Service (QoS) Foundations: Managing Network Traffic
Bandwidth
- [Instructor] Welcome to this lesson on bandwidth. Let's start with a simple question. What is bandwidth? Think of bandwidth like a highway. Just like cars travel on roads, data travels through networks. The more lanes a highway has, the more cars it can handle at once. Similarly, bandwidth refers to the maximum amount of data that can pass through a network connection at a given time. When we talk about bandwidth in networking, we are really talking about how much data can move from one place to another over a specific timeframe, usually measured in beats per second, or BPS, kilobits per second, or KBPS, megabits per second, or MBPS, or gigabits per second, or GBPS. Now, you might be wondering, why does bandwidth matter? Imagine streaming a video. If you have enough bandwidth, the video plays smoothly, but if your bandwidth is low, that video will suffer buffering, freezing, or dropping in quality. It's the same concept when you are on a video call, downloading files or playing…
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