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The maximum achievable throughput (the channel capacity) is affected by the bandwidth in hertz and [[signal-to-noise ratio]] of the analog physical medium.
Despite the conceptual simplicity of digital information, all electrical signals traveling over wires are analog. The analog limitations of wires or wireless systems inevitably provide an upper bound on the amount of information that can be sent. The dominant equation here is the [[Shannon–Hartley theorem]], and analog limitations of this type can be understood as factors that affect either the analog bandwidth of a signal or as factors that affect the signal-to-noise ratio. The bandwidth of wired systems can be in fact surprisingly{{according to whom?}} narrow, with the bandwidth of Ethernet wire limited to approximately 1 GHz, and PCB traces limited by a similar amount.
Digital systems refer to the 'knee frequency',<ref>Johnson, 1993, 2-5</ref> the amount of time for the digital voltage to rise from 10% of a nominal digital '0' to a nominal digital '1' or vice versa. The knee frequency is related to the required bandwidth of a channel, and can be related to the [[3 db bandwidth]] of a system by the equation:<ref>Johnson, 1993, 9</ref> <math>\ F_{3dB} \approx K/T_r </math>
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