Terabit per second

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A terabit per second ( Tbit/s or Tbit/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 gigabits per second, 1,000,000 megabits per second, 1,000,000,000 kilobits per second, or 1,000,000,000,000 bits per second.

Related units

Another unit of data transmission is the terabyte per second (TB/s, TB/s, or TB/s). As "terabyte" has two possible meanings, the relation of Tbit/s to TB/s can be either of the following:

• Where 1 terabyte is considered 1,000,000,000,000 bytes
• *1 terabyte per second = 8 Tbit/s.
• Where 1 terabyte is considered 1,099,511,627,776 bytes (as in computer file storage)
• *1 terabyte per second ≈ 8.80 Tbit/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 tebibit per second:

10¹² bit/s = 1,000,000,000,000 bit/s = 1 Tbit/s (one terabit or one million million bits per second)

2⁴⁰ bit/s = 1,099,511,627,776 bit/s = 1 Tibit/s (one tebibit per second)

See also

• terabit/tebibit
• terabyte/tebibyte

External links

• [Terabit] — whatis.techtarget.com Definitions

 

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