Tbps

Units & Measurements abbreviation · Data Unit

Tbps
Stands forTerabits per second
CategoriesUnits & Measurements

Tbps stands for Terabits per second, a data unit abbreviation.

Trillions of bits per second, the scale of submarine cables, internet backbones, data-center fabrics and the largest denial-of-service attacks. Laboratory experiments have pushed single optical fibers past a petabit per second.

Example: The provider absorbed a DDoS attack peaking above 5 Tbps without downtime.

Usage notes

Internet exchange points such as DE-CIX Frankfurt and AMS-IX report peak traffic in Tbps. Also written Tb/s or Tbit/s. Do not confuse it with TB/s (terabytes per second), used for GPU memory bandwidth, which is eight times larger.

More data unit abbreviations

  • PB – Petabyte
  • PiB – Pebibyte
  • PPI – Pixels per inch
  • PPM – Pages per minute
  • px – Pixel
  • TB – Terabyte
  • TBW – Terabytes written
  • TFLOPS – Teraflops
  • TiB – Tebibyte
  • TOPS – Tera operations per second
  • WPM – Words per minute
  • YB – Yottabyte

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