Order of magnitude (data rates)

This is a compilation of data transmission rates / bit rates of various orders of magnitude for comparison purposes. It shows an overview of transmission limits and also whether certain content can be transmitted via certain media.

The data transmission rate, often referred to as data rate for short, is not a physical quantity; it describes the amount of digital data that is transmitted over a transmission channel within a unit of time.

Information is given as

• Bit rate in the unit bit per second (bit / s)
• Baud rate (Bd) = bit / s for transmissions with two signal states
• Bytes per second (abbreviated to B / s) 1 B / s is usually 8 bits per second
• Symbol speed, symbol rate (symbols / second, symbols / s, sym / s)

Depending on the transmission protocol , user data and, if necessary, administrative data (so-called overhead ) are transmitted. This must be taken into account when comparing data rates.

Units used in the following:

• 1 bit / s
• 1 kbit / s (kilobit / second) = 1000 bit / s
• 1 Mbit / s (megabits / second) = 1,000,000 bit / s
• 1 Gbit / s (gigabit / second) = 1,000,000,000 bit / s

See also: Unit prefixes , Scientific notation

1 to 10 bit / s

• 1 bit / s radio clock, time signal transmitter DCF77 , Mainflingen
• 8.3 bit / s - Mars probe Mariner 4 - 8 hours for 200 × 200 × 6 bits (1964)

10 to 100 bit / s

• approx. 40 bit / s - Morse code (maximum human processing speed)

100 to 1000 bit / s (1 kbit / s)

• 300 bit / s - early acoustic couplers (V.21 standard)

1 kbit / s to 10 kbit / s

• 9.6 kbit / s - GSM
• 9.6 kbit / s - EIB fieldbus

10 kbit / s to 100 kbit / s

• 16 kbit / s - ISDN - D-channel (control channel)
• 32 kbit / s - user data channel with DECT
• 31250 bit / s - MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
• up to 56 kbit / s - modem
• 64 kbit / s - ISDN per B-channel (voice, fax)
• 64 kbit / s - ADSL (upstream)

100 kbit / s to 1000 kbit / s (1 Mbit / s)

• up to 115 kbit / s - IrDA 1.0 (infrared interface)
• 115 kbit / s - GPRS , HSCSD (when using several channels)
• up to 115.2 kbit / s - RS-232 ( serial interface ): depending on the chipset also significantly higher
• 125 kbit / s - CAN bus low-speed bus field bus
• 144 kbit / s - ISDN basic connection (2 × B-channel + D-channel)
• up to 150 kbit / s - Mercury probe Mariner 10 (1973)
• 167 kbit / s - AS-Interface fieldbus
• 250 kbit / s - ZigBee (wireless radio networks)
• 384 kbit / s - ADSL ( downstream )
• 384 kbit / s - UMTS , or faster with HSDPA
• 384 kbit / s - EDGE (extended GPRS )
• approx. 500 kbit / s - BGAN (Internet via satellite)
• approx. 800 kbit / s - DECT
• about 870 kbit / s - typical data rate when streaming of HD content (1080p) at Netflix

1 Mbit / s to 10 Mbit / s

• 1 Mbit / s - CAN bus high-speed bus field bus
• up to 1 Mbit / s - ( ADSL2 + ) (upstream)
• up to 1.024 Mbit / s - "DSL 1000"
• up to 1.4 Mbit / s - HSUPA uplink (UMTS broadband)
• approx. 1.411 Mbit / s - audio CD (sampling rate 44.1 kHz)
• up to 1.5 Mbit / s - Profibus (old) fieldbus
• 2 Mbit / s - ISDN - Primary Rate Interface
• approx. 2 Mbit / s - parallel interface (PC)
• up to 2 Mbit / s - DMB
• up to 2.048 Mbit / s - "DSL 2000"
• up to 3 Mbit / s - DVB-T : ( MPEG-2 coding for video)
• 3 Mbit / s - Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• approx. 3 Mbit / s - SD television picture ( MPEG-2 compressed)
• 4 Mbit / s - IrDA 2.0
• up to 5 Mbit / s - DVB-C , DVB-S : ( MPEG-2 coding for video)
• 5 Mbit / s - Interbus (500 kByte) fieldbus
• approx. 6 Mbit / s - Video DVD (MPEG-2 compressed)
• up to 6.016 Mbit / s - "DSL 6000" and "Cable Internet"
• up to 7.2 Mbit / s - HSDPA downlink (UMTS broadband)
• up to 8 Mbit / s - DVB-S2 : ( MPEG-4 coding for video)
• 9.8 Mbit / s - DVD-Audio / Super Audio Compact Disc (SACD)

10 Mbit / s to 100 Mbit / s

• 10 Mbit / s - Ethernet
• 10 Mbit / s - FlexRay fieldbus
• up to 12 Mbit / s - USB 1.0
• 12 Mbit / s - USB Full Speed via USB 1.x, USB 2.0 or USB 3.0
• up to 12 Mbit / s - Profibus (new) fieldbus
• 14 Mbit / s - Powerline 14/28
• up to 16 Mbit / s - "DSL 16000" ( ADSL2 + ) (downstream)
• 16 Mbit / s - SD memory card minimum write speed SDHC Class 2 (2 MB / s)
• 20 Mbit / s - Interbus (2 Mbyte) fieldbus
• up to 25 Mbit / s - ( ADSL2 + ) (downstream)
• 32 Mbit / s - cable internet
• 50 Mbit / s - VDSL (downstream)
• 80 Mbit / s - SD memory card minimum write speed SDHC Class 10 (10 MB / s)
• 85 Mbit / s - Powerline 56/85
• 100 Mbit / s - VDSL with vectoring (downstream)

100 Mbit / s to 1000 Mbit / s (1 Gbit / s)

• 100 Mbit / s - Fast Ethernet
• 100 Mbit / s - WiMAX
• 150 Mbit / s - MOST150
• approx. 160 Mbit / s - DOCSIS TV cable (downstream)
• 200 Mbit / s - Powerline 200
• approx. 400 Mbit / s - uncompressed SD video (576p 50 Hz)
• 400 Mbit / s - FireWire -400
• 480 Mbit / s - USB 2.0 Hi-Speed
• up to 540 Mbit / s - Serial Digital Interface (SDI)
• up to 600 Mbit / s - WLAN
• up to 600 Mbit / s - SD memory card (reading)
• 800 Mbit / s - FireWire -800
• up to 800 Mbit / s - CompactFlash card via ATA adapter
• up to 832 Mbit / s - SD memory card UHS I

1 Gbit / s to 10 Gbit / s

• 1 Gbit / s - Gigabit Ethernet
• approx. 1 Gbit / s - FTTH fiber optic network (downstream)
• approx. 1 Gbit / s - HD video (720p 60 Hz uncompressed)
• up to 1.066 Gbit / s - ATA / ATAPI
• 1.485 Gbps - HD-SDI
• approx. 2 Gbit / s max. Read rate of a modern hard drive
• approx. 2.4 Gbit / s - HD video (1080p 60 Hz uncompressed)
• up to 2.5 Gbit / s - SD memory card UHS-II
• up to 3 Gbit / s - SCSI - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
• 4 Gbit / s - USB 3.0 SuperSpeed
• up to 5.4 Gbit / s - read rate of a standard SSD hard drive (SATA)
• up to 6 Gbit / s - Serial ATA (SATA)
• 8 Gbit / s - Fiber Channel

10 Gbit / s to 100 Gbit / s

• 10 Gbit / s - USB 3.1 SuperSpeed ​​+
• 10 Gbit / s - 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• 10 Gbit / s - Thunderbolt (interface) per channel
• 12 Gbit / s - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
• 22 Gbit / s - SSD hard drives as RAID
• 28 Gbit / s - PCIe SSD hard drive
• 40 Gbit / s - 40 Gigabit Ethernet

100 Gbit / s to 1000 Gbit / s (1 Tbit / s)

• 100 Gbit / s - 100 Gigabit Ethernet
• 200 Gbit / s - 200 Gigabit Ethernet
• 200 Gbit / s - data rate recorded in the LHC particle accelerator
• up to 252 Gbit / s - PCI Express
• up to 307 Gbit / s - RAM disk as part of the main memory
• 400 Gbit / s - 400 Gigabit Ethernet

More than 1 Tbit / s

• up to 3 Tbit / s - Apollo submarine cable system in the Atlantic for data exchange between Europe and North America (from 2003)
• 26 Tbit / s: Trial at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT
• 50 Tbit / s - Estimated worldwide data transfer over the Internet 2010
• 101.7 Tbit / s - fiber optic cable over 3 × 55 km
• 255 Tbit / s - fiber optic cable with 7 cores over 1 km
• 8 Pbit / s = 8000 Tbit / s - raw data rate produced in the LHC experiments

Remarks

1. ↑ Solid-state drives in comparison

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Netflix help page , accessed November 18, 2019 (German).
2. ↑ CompactFlash card with up to 100 MB / s presented ( Memento from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ SD association: Bus Speed ( memento of the original from February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ z. B. Seagate Barracuda 7200 3000 GB
5. ↑ SD association: Bus Speed ( memento of the original from February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ OCZ IBIS 240 GB
7. ↑ Super Talent RAIDDrive II PCIe SSD 1 TB up to 2800 MB / s read and 2400 MB / s write
8. ↑ 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 SSD | MZ-V7S1T0BW. Retrieved on February 22, 2019 (German). 
9. ↑ Processing: What to record? Retrieved January 2, 2016 . 
10. ↑ World record - 700 DVDs transferred in one second on welt.de.
11. ↑ Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast (English)
12. ↑ D. Qian, M. Huang, E. Ip, Y. Huang, Y. Shao, J. Hu, T. Wang, 101.7 Tb / s (370 x 294 Gb / s) PDM-128QAM-OFDM transmission over 3 × 55-km SSMF using Pilot-based Phase Noise Mitigation, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2011, paper PDPB5.
13. ↑ Researchers transmit 255 TBit / s via fiber optics. October 29, 2014. Retrieved October 29, 2014 . 
14. ↑ CERN Upgrades Data Center and Restarts Large Hadron Collider. (No longer available online.) August 10, 2015, archived from the original on January 2, 2016 ; accessed on January 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.