NAME

Number::DataRate - Convert data rate to bits or bytes per second

SYNOPSIS

# Bluetooth 2.0+EDR has a data rate of 3000 kbit/s, but what is that
# in bits and bytes per second?
use Number::DataRate;
my $data_rate = Number::DataRate->new;
my $bits_per_second = $data_rate->to_bits_per_second('3000 kbit/s');
my $bytes_per_second = $data_rate->to_bytes_per_second('3000 kbit/s');

DESCRIPTION

This module convers data rate to bits or bytes per second. For far more than you ever wanted to know about data rates, see Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units

This module accepts a wide range of formats, for example:

0.045 kbit/s
0.045 kbps
5.625Byte/s
24,576 kbit/s
54.0 Mbit/s
6.4 Gbit/s
1.28Tbit/s

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2008, Leon Brocard

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.