Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: baud
Definition: a unit of transmission speed equal to the number of discrete conditions or signal events per second. Baud is the same as 'bits per second' only if each signal event represents exactly one bit, although the two terms are often incorrectly used interchangeably.

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