Baseband v Broadband

baseband

• the whole bandwidth of the cable is utilized by a single signal
• bidirectional (i.e. computers to both send and receive data using a single cable. However, the sending and receiving cannot occur on the same wire at the same time)

broadband

• multiple signals are sent on multiple frequencies simultaneously using a single channel
• full-duplex (i.e. multiplexing technique known as Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM) which allows broadband media to accommodate traffic going in different directions on a single media at the same time)