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Encyclopedia > Gibibit per second
Bit rates
Decimal prefixes
Name Symbol Multiple
kilobit per second kbps or kbit/s 103
megabit per second Mbps or Mbit/s 106
gigabit per second Gbps or Gbit/s 109
Binary prefixes
kibibit per second Kibit/s 210
mebibit per second Mibit/s 220
gibibit per second Gibit/s 230

A gibibit per second (Gibps or Gibit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 mebibits per second or 1,048,576 kibibits per second or 1,073,741,824 bits per second. In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (sometimes written bitrate) is the frequency at which bits are passing a given (physical or metaphorical) point. It is quantified using the bit per second (bit/s) unit. ... An SI prefix is a prefix which can be applied to any unit of the International System of Units (SI) to give subdivisions and multiples of that unit. ... A kilobit per second (kbps or kbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 bits per second. ... (Redirected from 1 E3) For the techno single by Moby, see Thousand (single). ... A megabit per second (mbps or mbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000 bits per second. ... (Redirected from 1 E6) One million (1000000), one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999999 and preceding 1000001. ... A gigabit per second (Gbps or Gbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second. ... To help compare orders of magnitude this page lists dimensionless numbers between 109 and 1012. ... In computing, binary prefixes are often used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten. ... A kibibit per second (kibps or kibit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 bits per second. ... The word unit means any of several things: The natural or usual or smallest measure of something, of which there are multiples and of which there may be fractions. ... In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (sometimes written bitrate) is the frequency at which bits are passing a given (physical or metaphorical) point. It is quantified using the bit per second (bit/s) unit. ...


Gibibyte per second

Another unit of data transmission is the gibibyte per second (GiBps or Gibyte/s) and is eight times a gibibit per second:

1 gibibyte/s = 8 gibibit/s

Confusion

One gibibit per second should not be confused with one gigabit per second: A gigabit per second (Gbps or Gbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second. ...

109 bit/s = 1 000 000 000 bit/s = 1 Gbit/s (one gigabit or one billion bits per second)
230 bit/s = 1 073 741 824 bit/s = 1 Gibit/s (one gibibit per second)

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BIGpedia - Bit rate - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (413 words)
In less formal contexts the abbreviatons b/s or bps are often used, though this risks confusion with "bytes per second" (B/s).
Even less formally, it is common to drop the "per second", and simply refer to "a 128 kilobit audio stream" or "a 100 megabit network".
There are typically eight bits in a byte (octet), but communications data rates are almost never expressed in bytes per second, with the notable exceptions of disk and memory I/O transfer rates.
Kilobit per second - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (148 words)
A kilobit per second (kbps or kbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 bits per second.
Another unit of data transmission is the kilobyte per second (kBps or kbyte/s), which is 8 times the size of a kilobit per second:
One kilobit per second should not be confused with one kibibit per second:
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