Glossary

Gigabit

A gigabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated Gbit or sometimes Gb. A gigabit is 1,000,000,000 bits (binary digits, or ones and zeros) which is equal to 125 decimal megabytes or 119.2 mebibytes, (8 bits equals one byte). A gigabit per second (Gbit/s or Gbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second.