data rate

2 definitions found

data rate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  data rate
      n 1: the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when
           handling digital information

data rate - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  data rate
  
     <communications, unit> (Or "data ransfer rate", "transmission
     rate") The amount of data transferred per second by a
     communications channel or a computing or storage device.
  
     Data rate is measured in units of bits per second (written
     "b/s" or "bps"), bytes per second (Bps), or baud.
  
     When applied to data rate, the multiplier prefixes "kilo-",
     "mega-", "giga-", etc. (and their abbreviations, "k", "M",
     "G", etc.) always denote powers of 1000.  For example, 64 kbps
     is 64,000 bits per second.  This contrasts with units of
     storage where they stand for powers of 1024, e.g. 1 KB = 1024
     bytes.
  
     [Relationship with "bandwidth"?]
  
     (2002-03-23)