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Sure they do - nearly all networking gear is sold by bits/sec, e.g. gigabit Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet, and so on. Media encoding also commonly uses bit rates, e.
by jl6 6y ago
Sure they do - nearly all networking gear is sold by bits/sec, e.g. gigabit Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet, and so on.
Media encoding also commonly uses bit rates, e.g. 320kbps MP3.
- mdeck_ 6y agoYour networking equipment example goes to the same point. Why do I care how many bits are transferring per second? I don’t. I want to know bytes, since everything on my computer is measured in bytes. Regarding media encoding, there I’m less sure. I guess those values were originally in small enough absolute values, and have not continued to climb exponentially, such that measuring in bits maybe continues to make sense. Anyway, thanks for sharing those examples.