Gbps stands for which term?

• A. Gigabit per second
• B. Gigabits per second
• C. Gigabyte per second
• D. GigaPulses per second

Answer: (A)

Gbps is a data transfer rate expressed in billions of bits moving each second. “Giga-” means 1,000,000,000, “bit” is the basic unit of digital information, and “per second” shows the rate. This term is used to describe network speeds. It differs from gigabytes per second, which would use bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) and thus represent a different amount of data per second. It isn’t a measure of pulses per second, which isn’t how data transfer speed is described. So the expansion is gigabit per second.