How about the proposal for FMG - FastMegaGigabit???
Kenny Sallee
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> From: Graham McKenzie[SMTP:Graham_McKenzie@xxxxxxxxx]
> Reply To: Graham McKenzie
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:52 AM
> To: 'Frank Jimenez'; cisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; zoccav@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: kibibits and mebibits (Was: Re: kbps Mbps.)
>
> Just to make things a little more confusing...Will there be an American
> billion in a kibibit or a British billion ? :-)
>
> G.
>
> Graham Mckenzie
> Systems Engineer
> Global IT Group (Green Fields & Acquisitions)
> Jabil Circuit
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Jimenez [mailto:fjimenez@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:06 PM
> To: cisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; zoccav@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: kibibits and mebibits (Was: Re: kbps Mbps.)
>
> << File: Frank Jimenez.vcf >> It gets even better than
> that. There is a proposal out there to standardize the units for binary
> multiples.
>
> In other words, since 1 kilobit should really equal 1000
> bits (not 1024), the proposal is to have a kibi- prefix.
>
> 1 kibibit = 1024 bits (2^10 bits)
> 1 mebibit = 1048576 bits (2^20 bits)
>
> For more on this, go look at
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
> Ah, progress...
>
> Frank Jimenez
> CompuCom Systems, Inc.
> fjimenez@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> >>> Vincenzo Zocca <zoccav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 08/03/99 05:20PM
> >>>
> Assuming prefixes are taken from SI/metric system, the
> 'kilo' prefix in
> example ('K') should be in lower case ('k'). Like in 'km'
> (kilometer for USA
> and kilometre UK readers) and 'kHz' ('kg' (kilogram) would
> be a bad example as
> it is a unit itself).
>
> The Mega 'M' should be in upper case, as it is.
>
> Unfortunately, binary units do not seem to fall in the
> SI/metric system. Time
> (in s) does however.
>
> Following links simultaneously provide clarity and confusion
> in this matter:
> http://www.hlalapansi.demon.co.uk/Metric/index.html#prefix
> http://www.hlalapansi.demon.co.uk/Metric/index.html#binary
>
> Sorry to be pedantic,
> Vincenzo
>
> > KBPS and MBPS: kilobytes and megabytes
> > Kbps and Mbps: kilobits and megabits
>
>
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