What is the difference between Baud and Bits per second?
First, there is no such thing as a 56K baud modem. We’ll explain. BAUD (pronounced bawd) • It derives from Jean Maurice Emile Baudot, the 19th century inventor who constructed the first teleprinter or telegraph. • It refers to a signaling speed: One Morse Code dot per second. • In contemporary technology, baud refers to the switching speed of a data signal, ie., how fast can it change state from a High (1) to a LOW (0) • One change in electronic state, or baud, can involve more than just 1 bit of data. In Binary, a 5 reads as 101, or High, low, high. The baud would change for each bit. If the number were 7, (111), the baud would only switch high for the first 1 and not change for the other 2 digits. • Baud does not change for every single bit. Bits per second • Bits per second or bps, refers to how many binary bits can be transferred in a second. It doesn’t matter what electronic state they possess, they can be high or low, 1’s or 0’s. It is the amount of them that passes thorugh in a
