KBPS [KILOBITS PER SECOND]

1,024 bits per second, a standard unit of measure in determining telecommunications and local area network speeds. Remember, in graphic arts and publishing, file sizes tend to be measured in kilobytes or megabytes. There are eight bits to a byte, 1,024 bytes to a kilobyte and 10,242 (1,048,576) bytes to a megabyte.