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Encyclopedia > Megabit per second
Bit rates
Decimal prefixes
Name Symbol Multiple
kilobit per second kbit/s 103
megabit per second Mbit/s 106
gigabit per second Gbit/s 109
terabit per second Tbit/s 1012
Binary prefixes
(IEC 60027-2)
kibibit per second Kibit/s 210
mebibit per second Mibit/s 220
gibibit per second Gibit/s 230
tebibit per second Tibit/s 240

A megabit per second (Mbps or Mbit/s or Mb/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 kilobits per second or 1048576 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 that can be applied to an SI unit to form a decimal multiple or submultiple. ... ... Cardinal 1000 one thousand Ordinal 1000th one thousandth Numeral system Factorization 23⋅53 Prime Divisor(s) Roman numeral Ⅿ Unicode symbol(s) Ⅿ, ⅿ, ↀ Greek Prefix chilia Latin Prefix milli Binary 1111101000 Octal 1750 Duodecimal Hexadecimal 3E8 1000 (one thousand) is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. ... (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. ... A terabit per second (Tbps or Tbit/s) is a unit of data transfer equal to 1,000 gigabits per second, 1,000,000 megabits per second, 1,000,000,000 kilobits per second, or 1,000,000,000,000 bits per second. ... To help compare orders of magnitude this page lists dimensionless numbers between 1012 and 1015: See also Orders of magnitude (numbers) Categories: Stub | Orders of magnitude (numbers) ... In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten. ... In information technology there is sometimes confusion about measurement of bits and bytes. ... A kibibit per second (Kibps or Kibit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 bits per second. ... A mebibit per second (Mibps or Mibit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 kibibits per second or 1,048,576 bits per second. ... 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. ... A tebibit per second (Tibps or Tibit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,024 tebibits per second, 1,048,576 mebibits per second, 1,073,741,824 kibibits per second, or 1,099,511,627,776 bits per second. ... The word unit means any of several things: Unit of measurement or physical unit, a fundamental quantity of measurement in science or engineering. ... Data transmission is, very generally speaking, the conveyance of any kind of information from one space to another. ... ... 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. ...



Network Communications are often in Mbit/s.



Most video applications are measured in Mbit/s: Look up Video in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Video is the technology of capturing, recording, processing, transmitting, and reconstructing moving pictures, typically using celluloid film, electronic signals, or digital media. ...

  • 32 kbit/s – videophone quality (minimum necessary for a recognizable talking head)
  • 2 Mbit/s – VHS quality
  • 8 Mbit/s – DVD quality
  • 55 Mbit/s – HDTV quality

A videophone is a telephone which is capable of both audio and video duplex transmission. ... Top view VHS cassette with U.S. Quarter for scale Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed The Video Home System, first released in 1976, better known by its acronym VHS, is a recording and playing standard for video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by JVC (with some of... DVD-R writing/reading side, based on Photo DVD.jpg. ... It has been suggested that High Definition Video be merged into this article or section. ...

Megabyte per second

Another unit of data transmission is the megabyte per second (MBps or MB/s), which is 8 times a megabit per second:

1 megabyte/s = 8 megabit/s

The bandwidth of consumer broadband internet services are often rated in MB/s. Bandwidth is a measure of frequency range. ... Broadband Internet access, often shortened to broadband Internet or just broadband is a high data-transmission rate Internet connection. ...


Many computer data interfaces are rated in MB/s:

ATA cables: 40 wire ribbon cable top, 80 wire ribbon cable bottom Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), is a standard interface for connecting storage devices such as hard disks and CD-ROM drives inside personal computers. ... A SATA power connector. ... For other meanings of PCI, see PCI (disambiguation). ...

See also

  • Megabit, a unit of information storage (as opposed to transmission).

  Results from FactBites:
 
What is Mbps? - a definition from Whatis.com (279 words)
Mbps stands for millions of bits per second or megabits per second and is a measure of bandwidth (the total information flow over a given time) on a telecommunications medium.
Depending on the medium and the transmission method, bandwidth is also sometimes measured in the Kbps (thousands of bits or kilobits per second) range or the Gbps (billions of bits or gigabits per second) range.
Megabits per second is usually shortened to Mbps.
Rule Broadcast Systems - Tech Tips (1151 words)
If you were to put this tape in a camera or recorder that records 25 Megabits per second (assuming it fit), you can be confident that the tape will last as long as the number of minutes printed on the front of the cassette.
A 50 Megabit per second recorder moves the tape across the heads twice as fast as a 25 Megabit per second recorder.
The 100 Megabit per second recorder moves the tape at 4 times the speed as a 25 megabit per second recorder.
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