Petabit
A petabit (Pb) is a unit of digital information or data storage capacity. Here's a breakdown:
Definition
- *Petabit (Pb)*: A unit of digital information equivalent to 1,000 terabits or 1,000,000 gigabits.
- *Petabyte (PB)*: A unit of digital storage capacity equivalent to 1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gigabytes.
Context
- *Data Transfer Rates*: Petabit-per-second (Pb/s) data transfer rates are being researched and developed for high-speed data transmission.
- *Data Storage*: Petabytes are used to measure large-scale data storage capacities, such as those in data centers or cloud storage.
Scale
- - *1 Petabit = 1,000 Terabits*
- - *1 Petabyte = 1,000 Terabytes*
- - *1 Petabyte = 1 million Gigabytes*
The petabit and petabyte units help measure and describe the vast amounts of data being generated, stored, and transmitted in today's digital world.
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