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'''Network throughput''' (or just '''throughput''', when in context) refers to the rate of message delivery over a [[communication channel]], such as [[Ethernet]] or [[packet radio]], in a [[communication network]]. The data that these messages contain may be delivered over physical or logical links, or through [[network nodes]]. Throughput is usually measured in [[bits per second]] (symbol bit/s, sometimes abbreviated bps), and sometimes in [[data packets]] per second (p/s or pps) or data packets per [[time-division multiplexing|time slot]].

The '''system throughput''' or '''aggregate throughput''' is the sum of the data rates that are delivered to all terminals in a network.<ref>[[Guowang Miao]], Jens Zander, K-W Sung, and Ben Slimane, Fundamentals of Mobile Data Networks, Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|1107143217}}, 2016.</ref> Throughput is essentially synonymous to [[digital bandwidth consumption]]; it can be determined numerically by applying the [[queueing theory]], where the load in packets per time unit is denoted as the arrival rate ({{mvar|λ}}), and the drop in packets per unit time is denoted as the departure rate ({{mvar|μ}}).