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 |
20 Mbps Category |
4 cable |
16 Mbps |
Token Ring LANs |
10Mbps |
Thin Ethernet, category 3 cable, cable modem |
8.448 Mbps |
E-2 |
6.312 Mbps |
T-2, DS-2 |
6.144 Mbps |
Standard ADSL downstream |
3.152 Mbps |
DS-1c |
2.048 Mbps |
E-1, DS-1 |
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 |
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