During a simple municipal mesh discussion, staff confuse wavelength with channel width. How should the technician define wavelength?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Wavelength is a measuring tape along the wave — how far you travel for one full up-and-down. Channel width is how fat a slice of spectrum the radio uses. Mixing them is like confusing the length of a guitar string with how wide the stage is.
Full Explanation
Wavelength is the physical length of one full RF cycle. Channel width (bandwidth) is the span of spectrum occupied by the transmission, typically discussed in megahertz for 802.11 channels. Those are different concepts: one is a propagation geometry property of the carrier frequency, the other is a configuration and capacity choice. PoE class and UI signal percentages are unrelated to the wavelength definition.