A gigabit per second (gbps or gbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second.
Only a few applications utilize speeds measured in gbit/s:
Confusion
One megabit per second should not be confused with mibibit per second :
| 1,000,000,000 bit/s | = | 1 Gbit/s (one gigabit or one billion bits per second)
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| 1,073,741,824 bit/s | = | 1 Gibit/s (one gibibit per second)
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Related rates
Base 10:
- megabit per second << gigabit per second << terabit per second
Base 2:
- mibibit per second << gibibit per second << tibibit per second