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Capacity refers to the capability of a channel to transport data, typically measured in bits per channel usage.

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Relationship between Nyquist and Shannon channel capacity

Shannon builds on Nyquist Nyquist doesn't really tell you the actual channel capacity since it only makes an implicit assumption about the quality of the channel. …
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What is the intuition explaining the Shannon-Hartley theorem?

SNR is a concept that's very fundamental and applicable to way more things that just channel capacity. … I SOME cases the SNR can indeed be used to estimate the channel capacity. The Shannon channel capacity explicitly assumes that the it's additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. …
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