What are the throughput values for common LAN and WAN connections?
Applies to
Storage , throughput, performance
Answer
Connection |
Throughput in bits/Sec.
|
Throughput in Bytes/Second |
Throughput in Bytes/Minute |
Throughput in Bytes/Hour |
10Mbe 10BaseT |
10 Mb/Sec. |
1.25 MB/Sec. |
75 MB/Min. |
4.5 GB/Hr. |
100Mbe 100BaseT |
100 Mb/Sec. |
12.5 MB/Sec. |
750 MB/Min. |
45 GB/Hr. |
1Gbe Gigabit-e
|
1 Gb/Sec. |
125 MB/Sec. |
7.5 GB/Min. |
450 GB/Hr. |
10Gbe |
10 Gb/Sec. |
1.250 GB/Sec. |
75 GB/Min. |
4.5 TB/Hr. |
40Gbe |
40 Gb/Sec. |
5 GB/Sec. |
300 GB/Min. |
18 TB/Hr. |
T1 DS1 |
1.5 Mb/Sec. |
197 KB/Sec. |
11.8 MB/Min. |
709 MB/Hr. |
T3 DS3 |
45 Mb/Sec. |
5.59 MB/Sec.
|
335 MB/Min. |
20 GB/Hr. |
OC-3 |
155 Mb/Sec. |
19.4 MB/Sec. |
1.2 GB/Min. |
70 GB/Hr. |
OC-48 |
2488 Mb/Sec.
|
311 MB/Sec. |
19 GB/Min. |
1.1 TB/Hr. |
OC-256 Internet Backbone
|
13 Gb/Sec. |
1.65 GB/Sec. |
99 GB/Min. |
5.9 TB/Hr. |
Additional Information
The typical nomenclature for throughout is Bytes/sec with a capital B (B/s), whereas theoretical bandwidth of a connection is bits/sec with a lowercase b (b/s)