Capacity

<communications> The maximum possible data transfer rate of a communications channel under ideal conditions.

The total capacity of a channel may be shared between several independent data streams using some kind of multiplexing, in which case, each stream's data rate may be limited to a fixed fraction of the total capacity.

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