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Glossary: Resilience and Recovery

Mbps (megabits per second)

Also written: megabits per second, GB, gigabyte

A unit of network speed: millions of bits per second. Because a byte is 8 bits, a 400 GB (gigabyte) backup takes about 8.9 hours over a 100 Mbps link even at full speed.

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capacity planning