A billion bits Gbps, or Gigabits per second, is a measure of transmission speed or throughput associated with ATM technology The amount of data or traffic that passes through an ATM switch is usually measured in gigabits At a rate of 1 Gigabit, 139 500-page novels could be transmitted in a second, and a high resolution x-ray could be sent in less than a tenth of a second
One billion bits; used to describe data transfer rates as a function of time, as in Gbps
When we refer to Gigabit on the CWRU Network, we're talking about the speed of data traveling Most networks in the world today are 10 megabits per second Ethernet, gigabit is 1000 megabits per second A file it would take ten minutes to download on the 10 mbs Ethernet only takes 1 minutes on gigabit! Note this is only if you are downloading from another computer which has gigabit If the computer you are connecting to is 10 megabit Ethernet, you are slowed down to their speed
Amount of memory equal to 1024 Megabits (1,073,741,824 bits) of information Abbreviated Gb
One billion bits Gigabit Ethernet - A networking technology in which data is transmitted at one gigabit per second The new Gigabit Ethernet interface is over standard copper cable (CAT 5) and is an IEEE 802 3u standard The interface also supports automatic speed selection between 10, 100, and 1000 Mbit/sec (Mbps) Gigabyte (Gbyte) One billion bytes or 1,024 megabytes Graphical Console Direction - The ability to control a server remotely using a graphical operating environment from an alternate location Works with Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT GUI Graphical user interface
One billion bits or one thousand megabits When expressed as a data rate per second, one Gigabit is approximately equivalent to 100 Megabytes per second over Fibre Channel
Literally, a billion (1,000,000,000) bits However, in most computer contexts, each thousand is replaced by a binary thousand equal to 1024, which is 2 to the 10th power So a gigabit is usually taken as 1024 * 1024 * 1024 or 1,073,741,824 You are likely to run into the term in the number of bits per second transmitted across high-speed optical links
(1) when used to describe data storage, 1,024 megabits (2) When used to describe data transfer rates, it refers to 10 to the 9th power (1,000,000,000) bits