Bit Rate - Progress Trends

Progress Trends

These are examples of physical layer net bit rates in proposed communication standard interfaces and devices:

WAN modems Ethernet LAN WiFi WLAN Mobile data
  • 1972: Acoustic coupler 300 baud
  • 1977: 1200 baud Vadic and Bell 212A
  • 1986: ISDN introduced with two 64 kbit/s channels (144 kbit/s gross bit rate)
  • 1990: v.32bis modems: 2400 / 4800 / 9600 / 19200 bit/s
  • 1994: v.34 modems with 28.8 kbit/s
  • 1995: v.90 modems with 56 kbit/s downstreams, 33.6 kbit/s upstreams
  • 1999: v.92 modems with 56 kbit/s downstreams, 48 kbit/s upstreams
  • 1998: ADSL up to 8 Mbit/s,
  • 2003: ADSL2 up to 12 Mbit/s
  • 2005: ADSL2+ up to 24 Mbit/s
  • 1975: Experimental 2.94 Mbit/s
  • 1981: 10 Mbit/s 10BASE5 (coax)
  • 1990: 10 Mbit/s 10BASE-T (twisted pair)
  • 1995: 100 Mbit/s Fast Ethernet
  • 1999: Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2003: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2010: 100 Gigabit Ethernet
  • 1997: 802.11 2 Mbit/s
  • 1999: 802.11b 11 Mbit/s
  • 1999: 802.11a 54 Mbit/s
  • 2003: 802.11g 54 Mbit/s
  • 2007: 802.11n 600 Mbit/s
  • 1G:
    • 1981: NMT 1200 bit/s
  • 2G:
    • 1991: GSM CSD and D-AMPS 14.4 kbit/s
    • 2003: GSM EDGE 296 kbit/s down, 118.4 kbit/s up
  • 3G:
    • 2001: UMTS-FDD (WCDMA) 384 kbit/s
    • 2007: UMTS HSDPA 14.4 Mbit/s
    • 2008: UMTS HSPA 14.4 Mbit/s down, 5.76 Mbit/s up
    • 2009: HSPA+ (Without MIMO) 28 Mbit/s downstreams (56 Mbit/s with 2x2 MIMO), 22 Mbit/s upstreams
    • 2010: CDMA2000 EV-DO Rev. B 14.7 Mbit/s downstreams
    • 2011: HSPA+ accelerated (With MIMO) 42 Mbit/s downstreams
  • Pre-4G:
    • 2007: Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) 144 Mbit/s down, 35 Mbit/s up.
    • 2009: LTE 100 Mbit/s downstreams (360 Mbit/s with MIMO 2x2), 50 Mbit/s upstreams

See also Comparison of mobile phone standards

For more examples, see List of device bit rates, Spectral efficiency comparison table and OFDM system comparison table.

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