What do we mean by BW = 10Kbps;

[Dinos Tsakalakis]

Hallo , i am studying Computer networks and i have a difficulty of understanding the term : BW=Kbps, I have done other subjects in the past that uses the BW referring to frequency spectrum but now i have something else, i suppose that this has to do something with the maximum transfer speed via a network cable ,made by a clock.

Thenks,

[ataradov]

This is just a general bandwidth in terms of final communication speed. It does not say anything about the clock or the bandwidth of the physical channel. Depending on the modulation type those things may vary a lot.

[Marco]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_(computing)

It's a contextual definition of bandwidth, usually they mean the peak throughput ... sometimes including overhead, sometimes not including overhead, there's no hard rule.

[bson]

It's the Shannon limit for a given bandwidth, signal power, etc.  They just skip the "Shannon limit" part.

[Marco]

Nah, it's highly unlikely they mean channel capacity for a given signal strength when talking about computer networks.