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Data Transfer Rate

Vangie Beal
Last Updated May 24, 2021 7:39 am

The speed with which data can be transmitted from one device to another. Data rates are often measured in megabits (million bits) or megabytes (million bytes) per second. These are usually abbreviated as Mbps and MBps,respectively.

Another term for data transfer rate is throughput.