Bps vs. Baud — What's the Difference?

(computing) bit per second, a measure of speed of digital communication.

In telecommunication and electronics, baud (; symbol: Bd) is a common unit of measurement of symbol rate, which is one of the components that determine the speed of communication over a data channel. It is the unit for symbol rate or modulation rate in symbols per second or pulses per second.

Baud rate en

A unit of data transfer speed equal to one change in a carrier signal per second. Since most data transmission schemes transfer more than one bit of data with each change in the carrier signal, one baud is usually equal to several bits per second.

(finance) basis point, ‱

A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

(computer science) the rate at which data is transferred (as by a modem)

Bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.

A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate.

(computer science) a data transmission rate (bits/second) for modems