Kbps (kilobits per second)
Note: In international English outside the U.S., the equivalent usage is
"kbps" or "kbits s-1."
In the U.S., Kbps stands for kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second) and is a measure
of bandwidth
(the amount of data that can flow in a given time) on a data transmission medium. Higher bandwidths
are more conveniently expressed in megabits per second (Mbps, or
millions of bits per second) and in gigabits per second (Gbps, or billions of
bits per second).
This was last updated in December 2000
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