bps - technical definition

The measurement of bandwidth of digital transmission. The scale is bps, kbps kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second), Mbps or Megabits per second (millions of bits per second), Gbps or Gigabits per second (billions of bits per second), and Tbps or Terabits per second (trillions of bits per second). Note: ISO purists prefer bits/s, as in Mbit/s. See also bandwidth.

The measurement of the transmission rate in select storage networking systems. Storage technologies such as Fibre Channel and Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON) measure the speed of information transfer in Bps.Although storage is byte-oriented and transmission is bit-oriented, the transmission system in such an application is purely storage-oriented, so the rate is stated in storage terms.