Saturday, April 18, 2020

Are Ethernet speeds in gigabits/s or gibibits/s?

Various areas of computer science have different traditions on using base 2/1024 versus base 10/1000 prefixes, when discussing speeds and capacities. Storage vendors always use base 10 SI gigabytes, but I don't remember the convention in networking, specifically Ethernet. Can someone please remind me if " gigabit Ethernet is actually 10003 bps or 10243 bps?



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