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Bit rates
Binary prefixes
(IEC 60027-2)
In telecommunications and computing, bitrate (sometimes written bit rate, data rate or as a
variable R or fb) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.
The bit rate is quantified using the bits per second (bit/s or bps) unit, often in conjunction
with an SI prefix such as kilo- (kbit/s or kbps), mega- (Mbit/s or Mbps), giga- (Gbit/s or
Gbps) or tera- (Tbit/s or Tbps). Note that, unlike many other computer-related units, 1 kbit/s
is traditionally defined as 1,000 bit/s, not 1,024 bit/s, etc, also before 1999 when SI prefixes
were introduced for units of information in the standard IEC 60027-2.
The formal abbreviation for "bits per second" is "bit/s" (not "bits/s", see writing style for SI
units). In less formal contexts the abbreviations "b/s" or "bps" are often used, though this
risks confusion with "bytes per second" ("B/s", "Bps").
Contents
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• 1 Bit rates at various protocol layers
○ 1.1 Physical layer gross bit rate
○ 1.2 Physical layer net bit rate
○ 1.3 Network throughput
○ 1.4 Goodput (data transfer rate)
○ 1.5 Multimedia bit rate
• 2 Prefixes
• 3 Progress trends
• 4 Bitrates in multimedia
○ 4.1 Audio (MP3)
○ 4.2 Other audio
○ 4.3 Video
○ 4.4 Notes
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links
○ 7.1 Bandwidth calculator online
○ 7.2 Bitrates of DVB-S TV and radio channels
• 1374 kbit/s – VCD (Video CD) – audio and video streams multiplexed in an MPEG-
PS
• 3.5 Mbit/s typ - Standard-definition television quality (with bit-rate reduction from
MPEG-2 compression)
• 5 Mbit/s typ – DVD quality (with bit-rate reduction from MPEG-2 compression)
• 8 to 15 Mbit/s typ – HDTV quality (with bit-rate reduction from MPEG-4 AVC
compression)
• 29.4 Mbit/s max – HD DVD
• 40 Mbit/s max – Blu-ray Disc
[edit] Notes
For technical reasons (hardware/software protocols, overheads, encoding schemes, etc.) the
actual bitrates 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) – 64
kbit/s
• CDs using CDDA PCM – 1.4 Mbit/s
[edit] See also
• Audio bit depth
• Average bitrate
• Bandwidth (computing)
• Baud (symbol rate)
• Clock rate
• Code rate
• Constant bitrate
• Data rate units
• Data signaling rate
• Goodput
• Line rate
• List of device bandwidths
• Measuring network throughput
• Spectral efficiency
• Throughput
• Variable bitrate
[edit] References
1. ^ http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/articles/DAB-vs-FM-sound-quality.php
Maximum PC - Do Higher MP3 Bit Rates Pay Off? This article incorporates public
domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard
1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).
This article needs additional citations for verification.
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challenged and removed. (January 2008)
Companding · Convolution ·
Dynamic range · Latency ·
TheorySampling · Nyquist–
Shannon theorem · Sound
quality
Video Characteristics ·
Frame · Frame rate ·
TermsInterlace · Frame types ·
Video quality · Video
resolution
Video
Motion compensation ·
Video codec parts
DCT · Quantization
See Compression formats for formats and Compression software implementations for
codecs
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