Definition of "kilobit" []

• Computer Science One thousand bits. (noun)
• Computer Science 1,024 (210) bits. (noun)

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• "Back in those days computer dudes were excited about the possibility of 28.8 kilobit modems."
• "When I was working for Infolibria a decade 1 ago I was one of the testers of unified server farm which had more than 20 servers, content storage, and could deliver 20,000 simultaneously streams of 300 kilobit per second digital video on-demand from whatever combination of stored canned content was in storage and live streaming video available for the system to replicate."
• ""If people are forced to pay per kilobit it's like they are forced to pay per word of a book," said Todd Weaver, chief executive of Ivi, a Seattle-based video streaming company."