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At Jupiter, the spacecraft transmitted data at 115.2 kilobits per second; now, that rate has slowed to 40 bits per second, and faster modes can be overwritten.
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IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
With many shims capping the space at 32 kilobits, this capacity could be close to running out of space.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
If your application needs relatively low bandwidth, so, many of the IoT applications need kilobits per second, which is a very low rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
The researchers were able to send 72 kilobits of data per second—or the equivalent of 4,600 characters per second.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2020
Many countries on the continent still have bandwidth as low as 64 kilobits.
—Clement Prince Addo, Quartz Africa, 18 Dec. 2019
Consumers, sending emails from home, were just getting used to the squealing and squawking sounds of the latest 56 kbps (kilobits per second) dial-up modems.
—Wired, 12 Sep. 2019
In July last year, Alberto Boaron of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues reported distributing secret keys using QKD over a record distance of more than 400 kilometers of optical fiber, at 6.5 kilobits per second.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
What Young and his team have built in to share with archive visitors is the streaming rate at which songs are played back, numbers that are markedly higher than the standard streaming speed of 320 kilobits per second.
—Randy Lewis, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
With many shims capping the space at 32 kilobits, this capacity could be close to running out of space.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
If your application needs relatively low bandwidth, so, many of the IoT applications need kilobits per second, which is a very low rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
The researchers were able to send 72 kilobits of data per second—or the equivalent of 4,600 characters per second.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2020
Many countries on the continent still have bandwidth as low as 64 kilobits.
—Clement Prince Addo, Quartz Africa, 18 Dec. 2019
Consumers, sending emails from home, were just getting used to the squealing and squawking sounds of the latest 56 kbps (kilobits per second) dial-up modems.
—Wired, 12 Sep. 2019
In July last year, Alberto Boaron of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues reported distributing secret keys using QKD over a record distance of more than 400 kilometers of optical fiber, at 6.5 kilobits per second.
—Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 19 June 2019
What Young and his team have built in to share with archive visitors is the streaming rate at which songs are played back, numbers that are markedly higher than the standard streaming speed of 320 kilobits per second.
—Randy Lewis, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
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“Kilobit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilobit. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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