GIGABIT PER SECOND

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:

★ Gigabit Ethernet, 1 Gbit/s

★ 10 gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gbit/s

★ SCSI & Fibre Channel hard drives

★ OC-24, a 1.244 Gbit/s SONET data channel

★ OC-192, a 9.953 Gbit/s SONET data channel, the fastest in current use

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Related units

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

See also

★ gigabit

★ gigabyte

★ Megabit per second (Mb/s, Mbit/s or Mbps)

★ Megabyte per second (MB/s or MBps)

External links

★ Gigabit — searchNetworking.com Definitions