Tbps is the abbreviation for which term?

• A. Terabyte per second
• B. Terabyte per second
• C. Terabit per second
• D. Terabyte per hour

Answer: (B)

Tbps denotes terabits per second. In data rate notation, the letter b is bits and the letter B is bytes, with 1 byte equal to 8 bits. Because Tbps uses a lowercase b, it means terabits per second. If you meant terabytes per second, the abbreviation would be TBps (capital B for bytes). Terabytes per hour would be TB/hour, which is a very different kind of rate. So the correct interpretation is terabits per second.