Bandwidth depends on Device interfaces rather then physical

Is it true to say that bandwidth depends on the device interfaces rather
then the medium (copper or fibre) itself.

For example. A 1 Gig interface will transmit at 1gig over Copper. A 10mb
interface will transmit at 10mb over the same copper medium.

The medium - copper will transmit at the speed of light. But its the
interface which determines how much bandwidth is put onto the meduim.

So if you wanted to calculate the bandwidth from one end to the other, the
least speed (bandwidth) interface will be the end to end bandwidth

Is this true and are there any other factors?

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Received on Thu Aug 04 2011 - 12:32:01 ART