Information about Terabit 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 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.

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the terabyte per second (TB/s, TB/s, or TB/s), equal to 8 terabits 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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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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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.
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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities.



Smaller than 10-36

  • Computing: The number 510-324

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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities.



Smaller than 10-36

  • Computing: The number 510-324

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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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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.
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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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terabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated Tbit or sometimes Tb.

1 terabit = 1012 bits = 1,000,000,000,000 bits (one trillion, long scale: one billion)
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terabyte (derived from the prefix tera- and commonly abbreviated TB) is a measurement term for data storage capacity. The value of a terabyte is based upon a decimal radix (base 10) and is defined as one trillion (short scale) bytes, or 1000 gigabytes.
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