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A megabit per second ('''Mbps''' or '''Mbit/s''') is a Unit of Data Transfer Rate equal to 1,000,000 Bits Per Second or 1,000 Kilobits Per Second .

The Bandwidth of consumer Broadband Internet services are often rated in Mbit/s.

Data streams representing Compressed Video are often measured in Mbit/s:
  • 32  Kbit/sVideophone quality (minimum necessary for a recognizable talking head)

  • 2 Mbit/s — VHS quality

  • 8 Mbit/s — DVD quality

  • 55 Mbit/s — HDTV quality




RELATED UNITS

One megabit per second should not be confused with one Mebibit Per Second :

: 106 bit/s = 1,000,000 bit/s = 1 Mbit/s (one Megabit , or one Million bits, per second)
: 220 bit/s = 1,048,576 bit/s = 1  Mibit/s (one Mebibit per second)

However, the mebibit per second is almost never used, and there is no ambiguity in telecommunications speed as a result (see Binary Prefix for the corresponding ambiguous definition when measuring computer storage). This is because the mebibit has no significance in raw Bit Rate terms — where storage size is constrained by the Binary number system, no such limitation exists when sending electrical pulses or flashes of light.


SEE ALSO


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