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kibps

kibps symbol: kibibits per second.

Symbol (1)

kibps

  1. kibibits per second
    • However, due to the technological constraints, data rates in today's ubiquitous wireless networks range from few kibps in outdoor environments to few Mbps in indoor environments.2000, Moncef Elaoud, Adaptive Resource Allocation to Enhance the Quality of Service in Wireless Networks, page 65
    • ... including required communication quality ranging from BER = 10⁻⁶ and transmission rate ranging from several kibps to 10 Mbps, must be taken into consideration.1996, International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, page 229

Symbol (2) capitalized: Kibps

Kibps

  1. kibibits per second
    • Ub 1996, an average capacity of 62 kibibits per second (Kibps) per inhabitant was available in the OECD countries, compared to the 13 Kibps available to LAC inhabitants (a difference of 49 Kibps), but by 2006 this difference had grown to 577 Kibps (756 versus 179).2010, United Nations, Information Societies in Latin America and the Caribbean, →ISBN, page 50

Forms of kibps

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Questions about kibps

What does kibps mean?
Kibps means kibibits per second.
What part of speech is kibps?
Kibps is a symbol.

Words near kibps in the dictionary

  1. kibozed
  2. kibozer
  3. kibozers
  4. kibozes
  5. kibozing
  6. kibps
  7. KIBS
  8. kibsey
  9. kibseys
  10. kibties
  11. kibty

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