Bit rate
Bit rate (also called bitrate, data rate or R) is how much data move from one place to another in a given amount of time. It is commonly measured in bits per second (symbol: bit/s or b/s).
It is different from symbol rate and bandwidth, but part of the same group.[clarification needed]
Other units
[change | change source]Common examples
[change | change source]- Megabit per second (Mbit/s or Mb/s) (1 000 000 bit/s)
- Megabyte per second or megaoctet per second (MB/s or Mo/s) (8 000 000 bit/s)
- Gigabit per second (Gbit/s or Gb/s) (1 000 000 000 bit/s)
- Gigabyte per second or gigaoctet per second (GB/s or Go/s) (8 000 000 000 bit/s)
