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A gigabit per second ('''Gbps''' or '''Gbit/s''') 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 .

Only a few applications utilize speeds measured in Gbit/s:


RELATED UNITS

Another unit of data transmission is the gigabyte per second ('''GB/s''', '''GBps''', or '''Gbyte/s''').
As " Gigabyte " has two possible meanings, the relation of Gbit/s to GB/s can be either of the following:

  • Where 1 gigabyte is considered 1,000,000,000 bytes

  • ---1 gigabyte per second = 8 Gbit/s.

  • Where 1 gigabyte is considered 1,073,741,824 bytes (as in computer file storage)

  • ---1 gigabyte per second ≈ 8.59 Gbit/s.


Because of this discrepancy, the use of "bit-rates" is strongly recommended for all discussions of data transfer speeds, as Bits Per Second (bps) is standardized on Base-10 numbers.

Another related unit is the Gibibit Per Second :

: 109 bit/s = 1,000,000,000 bit/s = 1 Gbit/s (one Gigabit or one Billion bits per second)
: 230 bit/s = 1,073,741,824 bit/s = 1 Gibit/s (one Gibibit per second)


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