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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to high-bandwidth data transmission.
  • adjective Of or relating to data transmission that uses multiple channels so that multiple pieces of data can be transmitted simultaneously.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective telecommunications Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies
  • noun telecommunications A wide band of electromagnetic frequencies
  • noun Internet An internet connection with a much larger capacity than dial-up or ISDN.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies
  • adjective of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video)

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  • He explained that the term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access, defining broadband service as data transmission speeds exceeding 200 kilobits per second

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  • The term broadband does not actually refer to the increased speed of an ADSL internet connection but the fact that the cable going from your house to the exchange is used for different things at the same time; voice calls and the internet.

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  • The term broadband does not actually refer to the increased speed of an ADSL internet connection but the fact that the cable going from your house to the exchange is used for different things at the same time; voice calls and the internet.

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  • The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access.

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  • The term broadband describes the data transfer rates but does not describe the under lying technology (physical and data link layer) used to achieve high data transfer rates.

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  • Our philosophy has been the broadband is a platform of innovation and thus there will emerge new applications from the proliferation of fat pipes - whether they are wired or wireless.

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  • You wrote "Your broadband is the same as my current DSL here (Atlanta)."

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  • You wrote "Your broadband is the same as my current DSL here (Atlanta)."

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  • Your broadband is the same as my current DSL here (Atlanta).

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  • Your broadband is the same as my current DSL here (Atlanta).

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