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Exactly right, but in this case it seems the word "throughput" itself
is too long to fit in whatever space they're trying to put it in,
which is why I suggest using the actual throughput shorthand for
what's being measured (bps, Mbps, etc.). There is no accepted
shorthand for "throughput", and inventing something may just cause
confusion, no matter how semantically clear you think it might be.
Your industry has norms. You should be versed in them and conform to
them.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Roberta Hennessey
<rahennessey -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Depending on what you are writing, throughput is a technical term understood
> by
> network engineers and measures speeds of data transmission. I used to write
> for the router industry,
> and it a common term in that industry. Again, depending on what you are
> writing, engineers/user
> might not understand an alternate word.
>
> See definition below:
>
> *Throughput is the rate at which a computer or network sends or receives
> data.*
> *
> *
> Bobbi
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