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throughput - technical definition
- The total amount of data that can be processed by, passed through, or otherwise put through a system or system element when operating at maximum capacity. The measurement is in data units per unit of time, such as bits, bytes, blocks, cells, frames, or packets per second.
- The amount of useful data, user data, or payload that can be processed by, passed through, or otherwise put through a system or system element when operating at maximum capacity. In this sense, overhead, i.e., signaling and control data, is of no relevance except for the fact that it reduces the payload and, therefore, the throughput. Throughput is always less than bandwidth. In other words, the transmission rate, or data rate, is always less than the signaling rate. See also bandwidth, goodput, and overhead.
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