BT are just beginning to make it available to most of their customers. The maximum rate at which a telecommunication system is able to transmit information from one location to another. The capacity of a system is determined by the apparatus of which it consists - its switches and the cables, fibres or radio links. Back Coaxial Cable Cable consisting of a central conductor surrounded by and insulated from another conductor. It is the standard cable used in present-day cable systems.
Coaxial cables have a wider bandwidth than twisted pair but less than that available over fibre.
The carrying, as opposed to the switching and delivery, of messages. The structured communication of information between computer terminals. Typical EDI applications include the electronic automation of business processes such as ordering and invoicing. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute - a body recognised by the EC to generate European telecommunications standards, some of which support various EC Directives. The right to install and operate a cable system in a specified geographic area awarded by the Independent Television Commission.