13.21 Gbps OC-255 10 Gbps OC-192 4.976 Gbps OC-96 2.488 Gbps OC-48, STS-48 1.866 Gbps OC-36 1.244 Gbps OC-24 933.12 Mbps OC-18 622.08 Mbps OC-12, STS-12 466.56 Mbps OC-9 155.52 Mbps OC-3, STS-3 100 Mbps CDDI, FDDI, Fast Ethernet, Category 5 cable 51.84 Mbps OC-1, STS-1 44.736 Mbps T-3, DS-3 North America 34.368 Mbps E-3 Europe 20 Mbps Category 4 cable 16 Mbps Fast Token Ring LANs 10 Mbps Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem 8.448 Mbps E-2 Europe 6.312 Mbps T-2, DS-2 North America 6.144 Mbps Standard ADSL downstream 4 Mbps Token Ring LANs 3.152 Mbps DS-1c 2.048 Mbps E-1, DS-1 Europe 1.544 Mbps ADSL, T-1, DS-1 North America 128 Kbps ISDN 64 Kbps DS-0, pulse code modulation 56 Kbps 56flex, U.S. Robotics x2 modems, 33.6 Kbps 56flex, x2 modem communications rate 28.8 Kbps V.34, Rockwell V.Fast Class modems 20 Kbps Level 1 cable, minimum cable data speed 14.4 Kbps V.32bis modem, V.17 fax 9600 bps modem speed circa early 1990s 2400 bps modem speed circa 1980s Units of Measurement bit = smallest unit of digital information, i.e. ones & zeros byte = a set of bits bps = bits per second Kbps = kilobits per second =1000 bits per second Mbps = Million bits per second =1,000,000 bits per second Gbps = Gigabits per second = 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bits per second Tbps = Terabits per second = 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) bits per second (Network speed is mesured in 1000 units, memory and storage space in 1024 units) |
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