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data transfer rate
Last modified: Tuesday, May 21, 2002
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.
