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baud rate

A number related to the speed of data transmission in a system. The rate indicates the number of electrical oscillations per second that occurs within a data transmission. The higher the baud rate, the more bits per second that are transferred.

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At best, the spacecraft’s two transmitters can each only send data back to Earth at a baud rate of one kilobyte per second.

Modems rarely transfer data at exactly the same speed as their listed baud rate because of static or computer problems.

There is a difference between bps and baud rate, and the two are often confused.

Accordingly, neither baud rate nor bps refer accurately to the rate at which information is actually being transferred.

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