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

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)

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