From: Haas, Brad (bhaas@netinfosys.com)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2006 - 13:38:30 ART
Let's not forget the easily misunderstood nibble...
Nibble - 4 bits or half an octet
Good stuff when converting Hex into Decimal since one nibble is equal to
a single hex digit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Veronica Timm
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:33 AM
To: Mike O
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com; Brad Ellis; nobody@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: bits & bytes
Mike, It's easy to miss this.
B - bytes
b - bits
8b = 1B (8 bits equal 1 byte)
16Mbps is 16 million bits per second. This generally refers to
throughput
rate, bandwidth, etc.
8MB is 8 million bytes. The general usage here is for amount of data,
RAM etc.
Veronica Timm
Senior Network Specialist,,
Network Operations,
York University,
Toronto, Ontario.
Canada. M3J 1P3.
"Brad Ellis" <brad@ccbootcamp.com>
Sent by: nobody@groupstudy.com
20/11/2006 07:27 PM
Please respond to
"Brad Ellis" <brad@ccbootcamp.com>
To
"Mike O" <mikeeo@email.msn.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
cc
Subject
Re: bits & bytes
1 byte = 8 bits
16Mbps - 16 million bits per second
thanks,
Brad Ellis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike O" <mikeeo@email.msn.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 4:24 PM
Subject: bits & bytes
> Is their a short cut to figuring out the difference? for example if I
am
> told to police to 16Mbps how do I convert that to bits or bytes? I
think
I
> missed a simple QoS in my lab because I used to many zeroes.
>
> -Mike
>
>
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