Packet rate versus data rate

pratap singh, upendra

pratap singh, upendra

@pratap-singh-6xlmve • Oct 26, 2024
In inter networking, what is the difference between data rate and packet rate?

How and to what extent can one affect the other?
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  • Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

    @abrakadabra • Apr 16, 2015

    #-Link-Snipped-# Could you explain the question further? Give us some context? Where did you read that? Was it in a text book? What chapter? What topic? What part did you not understand?
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  • pratap singh, upendra

    pratap singh, upendra

    @pratap-singh-6xlmve • Apr 17, 2015

    Ankita Katdare
    #-Link-Snipped-# Could you explain the question further? Give us some context? Where did you read that? Was it in a text book? What chapter? What topic? What part did you not understand?
    I was reading a chapter on Switching Fabrics and under the heading: - 'Bandwidth of an internal fast path', I found the following sentence:

    As with the other aspects of network systems, two measures are used- aggregate data rate and aggregate packet rate.

    Looks like they are talking about the measures that define the bandwidth of internal path.

    It was in context to this line that I asked the difference between aggregate data rate and aggregate packet rate.
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Anoop Kumar

    @anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Apr 17, 2015

    Do you measure data in Bytes/bits.
    Then data rate is "How much bits/Bytes" yo are sending per second.
    Packet consists the bundle of data, depends how big is the packet. So number of packets per second is packet rate.
    They use packet rate because it contains the signature (forgot the exact keyword), easier to track in networking, thus more relevant to use packets metrics instead of data.
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  • pratap singh, upendra

    pratap singh, upendra

    @pratap-singh-6xlmve • Apr 17, 2015

    Anoop Kumar
    Do you measure data in Bytes/bits.
    Then data rate is "How much bits/Bytes" yo are sending per second.
    Packet consists the bundle of data, depends how big is the packet. So number of packets per second is packet rate.
    They use packet rate because it contains the signature (forgot the exact keyword), easier to track in networking, thus more relevant to use packets metrics instead of data.
    but how do they affect the bandwidth in different ways.....
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Anoop Kumar

    @anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Apr 17, 2015

    Suppose you have 1 packet = 100 Kb of data.
    It will affect if you have large number of packet rate.
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