Gibit/s to Bps (Gibit/s to bit/s)
1 gibibit per second equals 1,073,741,824 bits per second exactly.
How to convert gibibits per second to bits per second
To convert gibibits per second to bits per second, multiply the number of gibibits per second by 1,073,741,824. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply bits per second by 9.313225746×10⁻¹⁰ (rounded).
bits per second = gibibits per second × 1,073,741,824
Example: 10 gibibits per second = 10,737,418,240 bits 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
Gibibit Per Second (Gibit/s)
1,073,741,824 bits per second.
At more than a billion bits each second, the gibibit per second suits fast storage buses and memory links. Its value is 1,073,741,824 bits per second, the product of 2 to the power 30, and it is about 7.4 percent larger than the decimal gigabit per second. Dividing by 8 gives 134,217,728 bytes per second, the figure Wikipedia lists for this unit.
The name was coined in the mid 1990s. A committee of IUPAC proposed kibi, mebi, gibi and tebi in 1995 as contractions of kilobinary, megabinary, gigabinary and terabinary. The IEEE then took the idea to ISO and the IEC and changed the symbols to the two-letter forms still used, so the unit is written Gibit/s. ISO 80000-1 defined the prefixes in 2009. Because the prefixes sit outside the SI, vendors of networking gear usually still quote plain gigabits, and Gibit/s mainly appears in technical specifications.
1 gibibit per second = 1,073,741,824 bits per second (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Binary prefix; Wikipedia: Data-rate units; NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples
Bit Per Second (bit/s)
The basic unit of data rate: one bit transferred each second.
Before there was a bit per second, there had to be a bit. The word is a contraction of binary digit, and John W. Tukey is credited with shortening it in a Bell Labs memo dated 9 January 1947. Claude Shannon then used it in print in his 1948 paper on the mathematical theory of communication, where he credited Tukey. Counting such bits against the clock gave engineers a way to compare telegraph lines, telephone circuits and computer links with one yardstick.
Today the bit per second is the base unit for data rates, written bit/s and often shortened to bps. It is not the same thing as the baud, which counts signalling events per second. The two agree only when each signal carries exactly one bit. Ten-megabit Ethernet over twisted pair, for instance, runs at 10 Mbit/s but sends about 20 million pulses per second because of its line coding. For scale, one cited figure puts the bare minimum for recognizable speech at around 800 bit/s, far below the 64 kbit/s of an ordinary digital phone line.
The bit per second is the reference unit for data transfer rate on this site.
Sources: Wikipedia: Bit (origin of the term); Wikipedia: Bit rate; Wikipedia: Baud
Related conversions
- Bps to Gibit/s (reverse)
- Gibit/s to Kbps
- Gibit/s to Mbps
- Gibit/s to Gbps
- Gibit/s to MB/s
- Kbps to bps
- Mbps to bps
- Gbps to bps
- MB/s to bps
- Tbps to bps
- B/s to bps
- KB/s to bps
- GB/s to bps
- MiB/s to bps
- Kibit/s to bps
- Mibit/s to bps
- KiB/s to bps
See all data transfer rate units.