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Data Pipe

A fairly informal way of describing a communication channel carrying data. The medium could be copper wire, optical, microwave, it does not really matter.

For example a T1 line could be termed a 'fat' data pipe because it can carry so many bits per second compared to a lowly broadband connection.

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2020-10