Gbps to Kibit/s
1 gigabit per second equals 976,562.5 kibibits per second exactly.
How to convert gigabits per second to kibibits per second
To convert gigabits per second to kibibits per second, multiply the number of gigabits per second by 976,562.5. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply kibibits per second by 0.000001024.
kibibits per second = gigabits per second × 976,562.5
Example: 10 gigabits per second = 9,765,625 kibibits per second.
Network speeds are quoted in bits per second (lowercase b), while file sizes use bytes (uppercase B). Divide Mbps by 8 for MB/s.
About these units
Gigabit Per Second (Gbps)
1,000,000,000 bits per second. Fiber and Ethernet speeds are quoted in Gbps.
Gigabit Ethernet came in two stages. IEEE 802.3z, produced in June 1998, was the first version and required optical fiber. IEEE 802.3ab, ratified in 1999, defined 1000BASE-T over four twisted pairs of ordinary copper cabling, which is what turned a backbone technology into something that could reach desktops. Over time, one gigabit per second became a built-in feature of many computers.
A gigabit per second is 1,000,000,000 bit/s, or 125 MB/s once the eight bits in a byte are accounted for. At that speed an ideal transfer of a 4.7 GB single-layer DVD image takes about 38 seconds. Ten Gigabit Ethernet, first defined in IEEE 802.3ae in 2002 and extended to twisted pair by 802.3an in 2006, multiplies this by ten and is common in data centers. Cable and DSL providers also quote gigabit figures; the G.fast DSL standard from 2014 tops out at 1 Gbit/s.
1 gigabit per second = 1,000,000,000 bits per second (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Gigabit Ethernet; Wikipedia: 10 Gigabit Ethernet; Wikipedia: Gigabyte (DVD capacity)
Kibibit Per Second (Kibit/s)
1,024 bits per second.
Kibibit per second is the smallest of the binary data-rate units on the site, and its name shows how it was built. The prefix kibi keeps the first two letters of kilo and adds bi for binary. It stands for 2 to the power 10, which is 1,024. The International Electrotechnical Commission approved the prefix in December 1998 and published it in January 1999 as an amendment to IEC 60027-2.
One kibibit per second is exactly 1,024 bits per second, or 128 bytes per second at 8 bits to the byte. A kilobit per second in the decimal sense is 1,000 bits per second, so the binary unit is 2.4 percent larger. Network speeds are almost always quoted with decimal prefixes, so this unit turns up mostly where a rate is derived from binary-sized buffers or memory blocks.
1 kibibit per second = 1,024 bits per second (exactly).
Sources: NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples; Wikipedia: Binary prefix; Wikipedia: Data-rate units
Related conversions
- Kibit/s to Gbps (reverse)
- Gbps to bps
- Gbps to Kbps
- Gbps to Mbps
- Gbps to MB/s
- Gbps to Tbps
- Gbps to B/s
- Gbps to KB/s
- Gbps to GB/s
- Gbps to MiB/s
- Gbps to Mibit/s
- Gbps to Gibit/s
- Gbps to KiB/s
- Bps to Kibit/s
- Kbps to Kibit/s
- Mbps to Kibit/s
- MB/s to Kibit/s
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