Glossary
USB
Universal S erial Bus (USB) is an industry standard deve loped in the mid-1990s that de fines the cables , connectors and communica-
tions protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices. USB 2.0
(also called "Hi-Speed"), adding higher maximum signaling rate of 480 Mbit/s (effective throughput up to 35 M B/s or 280 Mbit/s), in
addition to the "USB 1.x Full Speed" signaling rate of 12 Mbit/s.[16] USB 2.0 connectors are usually colored black. USB 3.0 defines
a new SuperSpeed mode with a signaling spee d of 5 Gbit/s and a usable data rate of up to 4 Gbit/s (500 MB /s). A USB 3.0 port is
usually colore d blue, and is backwards com patible with USB 2.0.
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