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KILOBYTES, MEGABYTES, GIGABYTES, TERABYTES, PETABYTES OR EXABYTES”
Author: Jim Martindale
Note 1:
‘Cable’ & ‘DSL’ Speeds vary
between 640 Kbps (Kbits) & 60+ Mbps (Mbits) depending on service
Note 2:
‘Satellite’ Speeds vary
between 44 Mbps (Mbits) & 10+ Gbps (Gigabits) depending on service
Note 3:
‘Wireless’ Speeds vary Widely Depending on Carrier
Shortened Explanation of Terms
Bandwidth (8 bits = 1 byte)
T1, DS-1 or 1.5-DSL
1.536 Mbps (192,000 bytes per second)
Wireless 2.4M
For more information on
Wireless WI-Fi, Wireless Local Loop (WLL),
Radio In The Loop (RITL), Fixed-Radio Access (FRA) or
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) see
3.0 Mbps + (375,000 bytes per second)
T2 or DS-2
6.144 Mbps (768,000 bytes per second)
Satellite – Commercial
24.00256 Mbps (3,000,320 bytes per second)
Trans-European TEN-34
34.08 Mbps (4,250,000 bytes per second)
Ultraband Cable
40.0 Mbps (5,000,000 bytes per second)
T3 or DS-3
44.736 Mbps (5,592,000 bytes per second)
WiMax Broadband Wireless
75.00 Mbps + (9,375,000 bytes per second)
T4 or DS-4
274.176 Mbps (34,272,000 bytes per second)
ETHERNET, FSO & Satellite
10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Optical Wireless or Free-Space Optics (FSO)
10 Gigabit Satellite
For definition see Webopedia’s
10 Gigabit Ethernet
For Satellite see
“KIZUNA” Satellite – Japan Aerospance Exploration Agency (JAXA)
9.953 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (1,244,000,000 bytes per second)
100 Gigabit Ethernet
For definition see Wikipedia
100 Gigabit Ethernet
99.532 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (12,440,000,000 bytes per second)
OPTICAL CARRIER
For Definition of Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) see
Wikipedia
SONET Standards including Bit Rate, SDH Signal, SONET Capacity & SDH Capacity
OC-1
(1 DS-3, 28 DS-1, 672 DS-0)
51.84 Mbps (6,480,000 bytes per second)
OC-3
(3 DS-3, 84 DS-1, 2016 DS-0)
155.52 Mbps (19,440,000 bytes per second)
OC-9
(9 DS-3, 252 DS-1, 6048 DS-0)
466.56 Mbps (58,320,000 bytes per second)
OC-12
(2 DS-3, 336 DS-1, 8064 DS-0)
622.08 Mbps (77,760,000 bytes per second)
OC-18
(18 DS-3, 504 DS-1, 12096 DS-0)
933.12 Mbps (116,640,000 bytes per second)
Gigabit Optical Networks
OC-28
(4 DS-3, 672 DS-1, 16.128 DS-0)
1.244 Gbps or 1244.16 Mbps (155,520,000 bytes per second)
OC-36
(36 DS-3, 1008 DS-1, 24,192 DS-0)
1.866 Gbps or 1866.24 Mbps (233,280,000 bytes per second)
OC-48
(344 DS-1, 32,256 DS-0)
2.488 Gbps or 2488.32 Mbps (311,000,000 bytes per second)
OC-192
(192 DS-3, 5376 DS-1,129,024 DS-0)
9.953 Gbps or 9953.28 Mbps (1,244,000,000 bytes per second)
OC-768
40 Gbps or 40000 Mbps (5,000,000,000 bytes per second)
OC-1536
80 Gbps or 80000 Mbps (10,000,000,000 bytes per second)
OC-3072
&
IBM’s Optical-transceiver Chipset
160 Gbps or 160000 Mbps (20,000,000,000 bytes per second)
Terabit Optical Networks
DWDM
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
10 Tbps
Cisco CRS-1
92 Tbps
For more information see
NCO’s Blue Book – Petaflops (1015)
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