Bit rate

Bitrate

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (sometimes written bitrate oras a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unitof time.

The bit rate is quantified using the bitsper second unit (symbol: “bit/s”), often in conjunction with an SI prefix. Thenon-standard abbreviation “bps” is often used to replace the standard symbol “bit/s”,so that, for example, “1 Mbps” is used to mean one million bits per second.