Bandwidth Capacity Table

160 Gbps

OC-3072

40 Gbps

OC-768, STM-256

13.21 Gbps

OC-255

10 Gbps

OC-192, STM-64

4.976 Gbps

OC-96

2.488 Gbps

OC-48, , STM-16, STS-48

1.866 Gbps

OC-36

1.244 Gbps

OC-24

933.12 Mbps

OC-18

622.08 Mbps

OC-12, STM-4, STS-12

466.56 Mbps

OC-9

155.52 Mbps

OC-3, STM-1, STS-3, category 5 cable, high-speed ADSL downstream - 2016 channels   

100 Mbps

CDDI, FDDI, Fast Ethernet

51.84 Mbps

OC-1, STS-1

44.736 Mbps

T-3, DS-3 North America - 672 channels to support 672 voice lines   

34.368 Mbps

E-3 Europe

20 Mbps Category

4 cable

16 Mbps

Token Ring LANs

10Mbps

Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem

8.448 Mbps

E-2 Europe

6.312 Mbps

T-2, DS-2 North America

6.144 Mbps

Standard ADSL downstream

3.152 Mbps

DS-1c

2.048 Mbps

E-1, DS-1 Europe

1.544 Mbps

T-1, DS-1 North America - 24 channels support 24 voice lines

128 Kbps

ISDN

64 Kbps

DS-0, pulse code modulation

56 Kbps

56flex, U.S. Robotics x2 modems,

33.6 Kbps

56flex, x2 modem communications rate

28.8 Kbps

V.34, Rockwell V.Fast Class modems

20 Kbps

Level 1 cable, minimum cable data speed

14.4 Kbps

V.32bis modem, V.17 fax

9600 bps

modem speed circa 1980s

2400 bps

modem speed circa 1980s

Units of Measurement

bit= smallest unit of digital information, i.e. ones & zeros
byte= a set of 8 bits
Bps= bits per second
Kbps= kilobits per second =1000 bits per second
Mbps = Million bits per second =1,000,000 bits per second
Gbps = Gigabits per second = 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bits per second
Tbps = Terabits per second = 1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) bits per second