Broadband vs. Fibre — What's the Difference?

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types. The medium can be coaxial cable, optical fiber, radio, twisted pair or satellite.

A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed

Of or relating to high-bandwidth data transmission.

Dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, lignin, and pectin, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes.

Of or relating to data transmission that uses multiple channels so that multiple pieces of data can be transmitted simultaneously.

Variant of fiber.

Any of several technologies that allow rapid transmission of data, as by using multiple channels simultaneously.

(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.

(telecommunications) Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies

(uncountable) Material in the form of fibres.

(telecommunications) A wide band of electromagnetic frequencies

Dietary fibre.

(Internet) An internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or cable modem.

Moral strength and resolve.

Of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video)

(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.

Responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies;

(category theory) Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.

(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.

(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.

Same as fiber.

A slender and greatly elongated solid substance

The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;

A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth