Back معدل البتات Arabic Tasa de bits AST Бітрэйт Byelorussian Побитова скорост Bulgarian Taxa de bits Catalan Přenosová rychlost Czech Bitrate Danish Bitrate German Ρυθμός μετάδοσης Greek Tasa de bits Spanish
| Name | Symbol | Multiple | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bit per second | bit/s | 1 | 1 |
| Metric prefixes (SI) | |||
| kilobit per second | kbit/s | 103 | 10001 |
| megabit per second | Mbit/s | 106 | 10002 |
| gigabit per second | Gbit/s | 109 | 10003 |
| terabit per second | Tbit/s | 1012 | 10004 |
| Binary prefixes (IEC 80000-13) | |||
| kibibit per second | Kibit/s | 210 | 10241 |
| mebibit per second | Mibit/s | 220 | 10242 |
| gibibit per second | Gibit/s | 230 | 10243 |
| tebibit per second | Tibit/s | 240 | 10244 |
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.[1]
The bit rate is expressed in the unit bit per second (symbol: bit/s), often in conjunction with an SI prefix such as kilo (1 kbit/s = 1,000 bit/s), mega (1 Mbit/s = 1,000 kbit/s), giga (1 Gbit/s = 1,000 Mbit/s) or tera (1 Tbit/s = 1,000 Gbit/s).[2] The non-standard abbreviation bps is often used to replace the standard symbol bit/s, so that, for example, 1 Mbps is used to mean one million bits per second.
In most computing and digital communication environments, one byte per second (symbol: B/s) corresponds to 8 bit/s.
- ^ Gupta, Prakash C (2006). Data Communications and Computer Networks. PHI Learning. ISBN 9788120328464. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
- ^ International Electrotechnical Commission (2007). "Prefixes for binary multiples". Archived from the original on 25 September 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2014.