Wire speed

Wirespeed wirespeed or refers to the theoretical maximum data transfer rate of a cable or other transmission medium. The wire speed is dependent on the physical and electronic properties of the cable, combined with the lowest transfer rate of the connection protocol.

Wire Speed ​​also describes any hardware or function that processes data without reducing the overall transmission rate. This value is often used in conjunction with built-in functions in microchips that operate at wire speed, especially when they are compared to software implementations. Switches, routers and similar devices are sometimes referred to as wire-speed capable devices.

The wire speed is rarely achieved with connections between computers, because the processor is limited, write a hard-disk overhead of read and exists or a resource contention exists.

Nevertheless, it is to appreciate a meaningful concept to the theoretically best throughput, although the maximum is actually far missed.

• Data transfer rate