Editing Data rate

'''Data rate''' and '''data transfer rate''' can refer to several related and overlapping concepts in communications networks:

==Achieved rate==
* [[Bit rate]], the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time
** [[Data signaling rate]] or gross bit rate, a bit rate that includes protocol overhead
* [[Symbol rate]] or baud rate, the number of symbol changes, waveform changes, or signaling events across the transmission medium per unit of time
* [[Data-rate units]], measures of the bit rate or baud rate of a link
* [[Data transfer rate (disk drive)]], a data rate specific to disk drive operations
* [[Throughput]], the rate of successful message delivery, or level of bandwidth consumption
* [[Transfers per second]]

==Capacity==
* [[Bandwidth (computing)]], the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path
* [[Channel capacity]], an information-theoretic upper bound on the rate at which data can be reliably transmitted, given noise on a channel

[[Category:Temporal rates]]
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