In computer technology, transfers per second and its more common secondary terms gigatransfers per second (abbreviated as GT/s ) and megatransfers per second ( MT/s ) are informal language that refer to the number of operations transferring data that occur in each second in some given data-transfer channel . It is also known as sample rate , i.e. the number of data samples captured per second, each sample normally occurring at the clock edge. The terms are neutral with respect to the method of physically accomplishing each such data-transfer operation; nevertheless, they are most commonly used in the context of transmission of digital data. 1 MT/s is 10 or one million transfers per second; similarly, 1 GT/s means 10, or equivalently in the US/ short scale , one billion transfers per second.
36-465: These terms alone do not specify the bit rate at which binary data is being transferred because they do not specify the number of bits transferred in each transfer operation (known as the channel width or word length ). In order to calculate the data transmission rate, one must multiply the transfer rate by the information channel width. For example, a data bus eight-bytes wide (64 bits) by definition transfers eight bytes in each transfer operation; at
72-401: A CPU and a northbridge , increases data throughput without requiring an increase in the channel's operating frequency (measured in transfers per second). This is analogous to increasing throughput by increasing bandwidth but leaving latency unchanged. The units usually refer to the "effective" number of transfers, or transfers perceived from "outside" of a system or component, as opposed to
108-442: A digital communication channel is the capacity excluding the physical layer protocol overhead, for example time division multiplex (TDM) framing bits , redundant forward error correction (FEC) codes, equalizer training symbols and other channel coding . Error-correcting codes are common especially in wireless communication systems, broadband modem standards and modern copper-based high-speed LANs. The physical layer net bitrate
144-472: A format sometimes abbreviated like "16bit / 44.1kHz". CD-DA is also stereo , using a left and right channel , so the amount of audio data per second is double that of mono, where only a single channel is used. The bit rate of PCM audio data can be calculated with the following formula: For example, the bit rate of a CD-DA recording (44.1 kHz sampling rate, 16 bits per sample and two channels) can be calculated as follows: The cumulative size of
180-614: A length of PCM audio data (excluding a file header or other metadata ) can be calculated using the following formula: The cumulative size in bytes can be found by dividing the file size in bits by the number of bits in a byte, which is eight: Therefore, 80 minutes (4,800 seconds) of CD-DA data requires 846,720,000 bytes of storage: where MiB is mebibytes with binary prefix Mi, meaning 2 = 1,048,576. The MP3 audio format provides lossy data compression . Audio quality improves with increasing bitrate: For technical reasons (hardware/software protocols, overheads, encoding schemes, etc.)
216-479: A point in the transmission path of a data transmission system . The maximum user signaling rate , synonymous to gross bit rate or data signaling rate, is the maximum rate, in bits per second , at which binary information can be transferred in a given direction between users over the communications system facilities dedicated to a particular information transfer transaction, under conditions of continuous transmission and no overhead information . For
252-673: A reasonable unit to describe the rate of a rapidly changing magnetic field, such as in a pulsed field magnet or kicker magnet ). Bit rate In telecommunications and computing , bit rate ( bitrate or as a variable R ) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The bit rate is expressed in the unit bit per second (symbol: bit/s ), often in conjunction with an SI prefix such as kilo (1 kbit/s = 1,000 bit/s), mega (1 Mbit/s = 1,000 kbit/s), giga (1 Gbit/s = 1,000 Mbit/s) or tera (1 Tbit/s = 1,000 Gbit/s). The non-standard abbreviation bps
288-427: A single channel, the signaling rate is given by S C S R = log 2 n T {\displaystyle SCSR={\frac {\log _{2}{n}}{T}}} , where SCSR is the single-channel signaling rate in bits per second, T is the minimum time interval in seconds for which each level must be maintained, and n is the number of significant conditions of modulation of
324-402: A transfer rate of 1 GT/s, the data rate would be 8 × 10 B /s, i.e. 8 GB/s, or approximately 7.45 GiB /s. The bit rate for this example is 64 Gbit/s (8 × 8 × 10 bit/s). The formula for a data transfer rate is: Channel width (bits/transfer) × transfers/second = bits/second . Expanding the width of a channel, for example that between
360-453: Is 125 Mbit/s, due to the 4B5B (four bit over five bit) encoding. In this case, the gross bit rate is equal to the symbol rate or pulse rate of 125 megabaud, due to the NRZI line code . In communications technologies without forward error correction and other physical layer protocol overhead, there is no distinction between gross bit rate and physical layer net bit rate. For example,
396-804: Is not the case for modern modulation systems used in modems and LAN equipment. For most line codes and modulation methods: More specifically, a line code (or baseband transmission scheme) representing the data using pulse-amplitude modulation with 2 N {\displaystyle 2^{N}} different voltage levels, can transfer N {\displaystyle N} bits per pulse. A digital modulation method (or passband transmission scheme) using 2 N {\displaystyle 2^{N}} different symbols, for example 2 N {\displaystyle 2^{N}} amplitudes, phases or frequencies, can transfer N {\displaystyle N} bits per symbol. This results in: An exception from
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#1732782715287432-669: Is often used to replace the standard symbol bit/s, so that, for example, 1 Mbps is used to mean one million bits per second. In most computing and digital communication environments, one byte per second (symbol: B/s ) corresponds to 8 bit/s. When quantifying large or small bit rates, SI prefixes (also known as metric prefixes or decimal prefixes) are used, thus: Binary prefixes are sometimes used for bit rates. The International Standard ( IEC 80000-13 ) specifies different symbols for binary and decimal (SI) prefixes (e.g., 1 KiB /s = 1024 B/s = 8192 bit/s, and 1 MiB /s = 1024 KiB/s). In digital communication systems,
468-408: Is possible without bit errors for a certain physical analog node-to-node communication link . The channel capacity is proportional to the analog bandwidth in hertz. This proportionality is called Hartley's law . Consequently, the net bit rate is sometimes called digital bandwidth capacity in bit/s. The term throughput , essentially the same thing as digital bandwidth consumption , denotes
504-437: Is provided by the network equipment or protocols, we have the following relation: for a certain communication path. These are examples of physical layer net bit rates in proposed communication standard interfaces and devices: In digital multimedia, bit rate represents the amount of information, or detail, that is stored per unit of time of a recording. The bitrate depends on several factors: Generally, choices are made about
540-405: Is the datarate measured at a reference point in the interface between the data link layer and physical layer, and may consequently include data link and higher layer overhead. In modems and wireless systems, link adaptation (automatic adaptation of the data rate and the modulation and/or error coding scheme to the signal quality) is often applied. In that context, the term peak bitrate denotes
576-428: Is the total signaling rate for m channels, m is the number of parallel channels, T i is the minimum interval between significant instants for the I -th channel, and n i is the number of significant conditions of modulation for the I -th channel. In the case where an end-to-end telecommunications service is provided by tandem channels, the end-to-end signaling rate is the lowest signaling rate among
612-399: The actual bit rates used by some of the compared-to devices may be significantly higher than what is listed above. For example, telephone circuits using μlaw or A-law companding (pulse code modulation) yield 64 kbit/s. Data signaling rate In telecommunications , data signaling rate ( DSR ), also known as gross bit rate , is the aggregate rate at which data passes
648-410: The physical layer gross bitrate , raw bitrate , data signaling rate , gross data transfer rate or uncoded transmission rate (sometimes written as a variable R b or f b ) is the total number of physically transferred bits per second over a communication link, including useful data as well as protocol overhead. In case of serial communications , the gross bit rate is related to
684-416: The source information rate , also known as the entropy rate . The bitrates in this section are approximately the minimum that the average listener in a typical listening or viewing environment, when using the best available compression, would perceive as not significantly worse than the reference standard. Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) uses 44,100 samples per second, each with a bit depth of 16,
720-443: The above factors in order to achieve the desired trade-off between minimizing the bitrate and maximizing the quality of the material when it is played. If lossy data compression is used on audio or visual data, differences from the original signal will be introduced; if the compression is substantial, or lossy data is decompressed and recompressed, this may become noticeable in the form of compression artifacts . Whether these affect
756-694: The above is some self-synchronizing line codes, for example Manchester coding and return-to-zero (RTZ) coding, where each bit is represented by two pulses (signal states), resulting in: A theoretical upper bound for the symbol rate in baud, symbols/s or pulses/s for a certain spectral bandwidth in hertz is given by the Nyquist law : In practice this upper bound can only be approached for line coding schemes and for so-called vestigial sideband digital modulation. Most other digital carrier-modulated schemes, for example ASK , PSK , QAM and OFDM , can be characterized as double sideband modulation, resulting in
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#1732782715287792-400: The achieved average useful bit rate in a computer network over a logical or physical communication link or through a network node, typically measured at a reference point above the data link layer. This implies that the throughput often excludes data link layer protocol overhead. The throughput is affected by the traffic load from the data source in question, as well as from other sources sharing
828-462: The bit transmission time T b {\displaystyle T_{\text{b}}} as: The gross bit rate is related to the symbol rate or modulation rate, which is expressed in bauds or symbols per second. However, the gross bit rate and the baud value are equal only when there are only two levels per symbol, representing 0 and 1, meaning that each symbol of a data transmission system carries exactly one bit of data; for example, this
864-429: The channel. In the case where an individual end-to-end telecommunications service is provided by parallel channels, the parallel-channel signaling rate is given by P C S R = ∑ i = 1 m log 2 n i T i {\displaystyle PCSR=\sum _{i=1}^{m}{\frac {\log _{2}{n_{i}}}{T_{i}}}} , where PCSR
900-501: The connection establishment phase due to adaptive modulation – slower but more robust modulation schemes are chosen in case of poor signal-to-noise ratio . Due to data compression, the actual data transmission rate or throughput (see below) may be higher. The channel capacity , also known as the Shannon capacity, is a theoretical upper bound for the maximum net bitrate, exclusive of forward error correction coding, that
936-399: The encoding bit rate is the goodput that is required to avoid playback interruption. The term average bitrate is used in case of variable bitrate multimedia source coding schemes. In this context, the peak bit rate is the maximum number of bits required for any short-term block of compressed data. A theoretical lower bound for the encoding bit rate for lossless data compression is
972-446: The file size (in bytes) divided by the file transfer time (in seconds) and multiplied by eight. As an example, the goodput or data transfer rate of a V.92 voiceband modem is affected by the modem physical layer and data link layer protocols. It is sometimes higher than the physical layer data rate due to V.44 data compression , and sometimes lower due to bit-errors and automatic repeat request retransmissions. If no data compression
1008-534: The following relation: In case of parallel communication , the gross bit rate is given by where n is the number of parallel channels, M i is the number of symbols or levels of the modulation in the i th channel , and T i is the symbol duration time , expressed in seconds, for the i th channel. The physical layer net bitrate , information rate , useful bit rate , payload rate , net data transfer rate , coded transmission rate , effective data rate or wire speed (informal language) of
1044-482: The gross bit rate and net bit rate is affected by the FEC code rate according to the following. The connection speed of a technology that involves forward error correction typically refers to the physical layer net bit rate in accordance with the above definition. For example, the net bitrate (and thus the "connection speed") of an IEEE 802.11a wireless network is the net bit rate of between 6 and 54 Mbit/s, while
1080-472: The gross bit rate is between 12 and 72 Mbit/s inclusive of error-correcting codes. The net bit rate of ISDN2 Basic Rate Interface (2 B-channels + 1 D-channel) of 64+64+16 = 144 kbit/s also refers to the payload data rates, while the D channel signalling rate is 16 kbit/s. The net bit rate of the Ethernet 100BASE-TX physical layer standard is 100 Mbit/s, while the gross bitrate
1116-461: The internal speed or rate of the clock of the system. One example is a computer bus running at double data rate where data is transferred on both the rising and falling edge of the clock signal. If its internal clock runs at 100 MHz, then the effective rate is 200 MT/s, because there are 100 million rising edges per second and 100 million falling edges per second of a clock signal running at 100 MHz. Buses like SCSI and PCI fall in
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1152-536: The megatransfer range of data transfer rate, while newer bus architectures like the PCI-X , PCI Express , Ultra Path , and HyperTransport / Infinity Fabric operate at the gigatransfer rate. The choice of the symbol T for transfer conflicts with the International System of Units , in which T is the symbol for the tesla , a unit of magnetic flux density (so "megatesla per second" (MT/s) would be
1188-520: The net as well as gross bit rate of Ethernet 10BASE-T is 10 Mbit/s. Due to the Manchester line code, each bit is represented by two pulses, resulting in a pulse rate of 20 megabaud. The "connection speed" of a V.92 voiceband modem typically refers to the gross bit rate, since there is no additional error-correction code. It can be up to 56,000 bit/s downstream and 48,000 bit/s upstream . A lower bit rate may be chosen during
1224-465: The net bitrate of the fastest and least robust transmission mode, used for example when the distance is very short between sender and transmitter. Some operating systems and network equipment may detect the " connection speed " (informal language) of a network access technology or communication device, implying the current net bit rate. The term line rate in some textbooks is defined as gross bit rate, in others as net bit rate. The relationship between
1260-433: The perceived quality, and if so how much, depends on the compression scheme, encoder power, the characteristics of the input data, the listener's perceptions, the listener's familiarity with artifacts, and the listening or viewing environment. The encoding bit rate of a multimedia file is its size in bytes divided by the playback time of the recording (in seconds), multiplied by eight. For real-time streaming multimedia ,
1296-425: The same network resources. See also measuring network throughput . Goodput or data transfer rate refers to the achieved average net bit rate that is delivered to the application layer , exclusive of all protocol overhead, data packets retransmissions, etc. For example, in the case of file transfer, the goodput corresponds to the achieved file transfer rate . The file transfer rate in bit/s can be calculated as
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