gigabit

giga·bit | \ ˈji-gə-ˌbit

How to pronounce gigabit (audio)

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How to pronounce gigabit (audio)

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Definition of gigabit

: one billion bits

Examples of gigabit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The new service could end up being 100 times faster than its predecessor, with data speeds reaching 10 gigabits per second. — Ian King And Scott Moritz | Bloomberg, Washington Post, "Why 5G Mobile Is Arriving With a Subplot of Espionage," 28 Oct. 2019 Hovering 1 million miles from Earth, Webb will beam down 458 gigabits of data a day for up to 10 years, potentially revealing the deepest mysteries of the universe's origins. — Wired, "NASA's Biggest Telescope Ever Prepares for a 2021 Launch," 22 Oct. 2019 Eastern Oregon Telecom has been trying to bring gigabit fiber to more remote parts of Oregon, Franell says. — Colin Lecher, The Verge, "Ripping Huawei out of US networks could be a nightmare for rural providers," 5 June 2019 The standard Ookla Speedtest app showed a download speed of 1.3 gigabits per second. — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, "These Providence 5G cellphone speeds are almost hot to handle," 14 Aug. 2019 Amazon's application didn't specify prices or exact speeds in megabits or gigabits per second. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "Amazon plans nationwide broadband—with both home and mobile service," 8 July 2019 Unlike traditional satellite broadband, SpaceX's low-Earth orbit satellites would be able to provide latency as low as 25ms and gigabit speeds. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "SpaceX says it will deploy satellite broadband across US faster than expected," 12 Sep. 2019 Using high-band spectrum, the transmitters covered only 11.6 percent of the United States population at a speed of 100 megabits per second and only 3.9 percent at 1 gigabit per second. — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, "What Trump’s Huawei Reversal Means for the Future of 5G," 1 July 2019 Connexion's website is advertising only two residential Internet packages, the $59.95 gigabit plan and a 10Gbps plan for $299.95 a month. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, "Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month," 30 Aug. 2019

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