Information about Gigabit Per Second

Bit rates
Decimal prefixes (SI)
Name Symbol Multiple
kilobit per secondkbit/s103
megabit per secondMbit/s106
gigabit per secondGbit/s109
terabit per secondTbit/s1012
Binary prefixes
(IEC 60027-2)
kibibit per secondKibit/s210
mebibit per secondMibit/s220
gibibit per secondGibit/s230
tebibit per secondTibit/s240
A gigabit per second (Gbit/s or Gbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second.

Examples of use:

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the gigabyte per second (GB/s, GBps, or Gbyte/s), equal to 8 gigabits per second.

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bitrate (sometimes written bit rate, data rate or as a variable R or fb) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. Bit rate is synonymous to data rate and digital bandwidth.
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An SI prefix (also known as a metric prefix) is a name or associated symbol that precedes a unit of measure (or its symbol) to form a decimal multiple or submultiple.
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Si, si, or SI may refer to (all SI unless otherwise stated):

In language:
  • One of two Italian words:
  • sì (accented) for "yes"
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kilobit per second (kbit/s or kb/s or kbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to mean 1,024 bits per second, using the binary meaning of the kilo- prefix, though this is incorrect.
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1000 (one thousand) is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001. The letter A does not appear in the English spelling of any number lower than "one thousand".
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megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes
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million (1,000,000), or one thousand thousand, is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001.

In scientific notation, it is written as 106[1]
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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities.



Smaller than 10-36

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terabit per second (Tbit/s or Tbps) is a unit of data transfer rate 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.
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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities.



Smaller than 10-36

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In computing, binary prefixes can be used to quantify large numbers where powers of two are more useful than powers of ten (such as computer memory sizes). Each successive prefix is multiplied by 1024 (210) rather than the 1000 (103
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kibibit per second (Kibit/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,024 bits per second.

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the kibibyte per second (Kibyte/s or KiB/s) which is 1,024 bytes per second.
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mebibit per second (Mibit/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,024 kibibits per second or 1,048,576 bits per second.

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the mebibyte per second (MiB/s or Mibyte/s
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gibibit per second (Gibit/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,024 mebibits per second or 1,048,576 kibibits per second or 1,073,741,824 bits per second.

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the gibibyte per second (GiB/s or
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tebibit per second (Tibit/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,024 gibibits per second, 1,048,576 mebibits per second, 1,073,741,824 kibibits per second, or 1,099,511,627,776 bits per second.
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units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. Disparate systems of measurement used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the International System (SI) of units, the modern form of the metric system.
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In telecommunications, data transfer rate or just transfer rate is the average number of bits, characters, or blocks per unit time passing between equipment in a data transmission system.

Transfer rates can serve several functions.
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megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes
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kilobit per second (kbit/s or kb/s or kbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to mean 1,024 bits per second, using the binary meaning of the kilo- prefix, though this is incorrect.
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Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2005 standard.
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10 gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE or 10 GigE is the most recent (as of 2006) and fastest of the Ethernet standards. It defines a version of Ethernet with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbit/s, ten times as fast as gigabit Ethernet.
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SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices. The SCSI standards define commands, protocols, and electrical and optical interfaces.
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Fibre Channel is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the T11 Technical Committee of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), an American National Standards Institute
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Sonet has multiple meanings, including:
  • Synchronous optical networking (SONET)
  • Sonet Records, a major European record label of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Soluciones Integrales Sonet Ltda., a software company from Chile.

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Sonet has multiple meanings, including:
  • Synchronous optical networking (SONET)
  • Sonet Records, a major European record label of the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Soluciones Integrales Sonet Ltda., a software company from Chile.

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gigabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated Gbit or sometimes Gb.

1 gigabit = 109 = 1,000,000,000 bits (which is equal to 125 decimal megabytes or 119.
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gigabyte or Gbyte (derived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage meaning either 1000³ bytes or 1024³ bytes (1000³ = one billion). The usage of the word "gigabyte" is ambiguous, depending on the context.
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megabit per second (abbreviated as Mbit/s, Mbps, or mbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000,000 bits per second. Because there are 8 bits in a byte, a transfer speed of 8 megabits per second (8 Mbps) is equivalent to 1,000,000 bytes
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A megabyte per second (MB/s or MBps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:
  • 1,000,000 bytes per second, or
  • 1,000 kilobytes per second, or
  • 8 Megabits per second.

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