In telecommunications, a broadband signaling method is one that handles a wide band of frequencies. "Broadband" is a relative term, understood according to its context. The wider(or broader) the bandwidth of a channel, the greater the information-carrying capacity, given the same channel quality.
In radio, for example, a very narrow band will carry Morse code, a broader band will carry speech, and a still broader band will carry music without losing the high audio frequencies required for realistic sound reproduction. This broad band is often divided into channels or "frequency bins" using passband techniques to allow frequency-division multiplexing instead of sending a higher-quality signal.
In data communications a 56k modem will transmit a data rate of 56 kilobits per second(kbit/s) over a 4-kilohertz-wide telephone line(narrowband or voiceband). In the late 1980s, the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network(B-ISDN) used the term to refer to a broad range of bit rates, independent of physical modulation details.[3] The various forms of digital subscriber line(DSL) services are broadband in the sense that digital information is sent over multiple channels. Each channel is at higher frequency than the baseband voice channel, so it can support plain old telephone service on a single pair of wires at the same time.[4] However, when that same line is converted to a non-loaded twisted-pair wire(no telephone filters), it becomes hundreds of kilohertz wide(broadband) and can carry up to 100 megabits per second using very-high-bitrate digital subscriber line(VDSL or VHDSL) techni
