{"id":53815,"date":"2026-04-20T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/glossary\/usb\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:23:27","slug":"usb","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/glossary\/usb\/","title":{"rendered":"USB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard established in 1996 that allows various peripherals to be connected to a computer. Different versions of USB offer varying data transfer speeds. For example, USB 4.0, introduced in 2019, allows transfers of up to 40 Gbps, while USB 3.2, launched in 2017, offers a speed of 20 Gbps. Going back further, we find USB 3.1 from 2013 with 10 Gbps, and USB 3 from 2008 with 5 Gbps. It&#8217;s also worth mentioning Thunderbolt, often abbreviated as ThunderboltSS, which offers even higher transfer speeds. In short, USB remains a universal connector widely used for its performance and compatibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard established in 1996 that allows various peripherals to be connected to a computer. Different versions of USB offer varying data transfer speeds. For example, USB 4.0, introduced in 2019, allows transfers of up to 40 Gbps, while USB 3.2, launched in 2017, offers a speed of 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_glossary-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[83],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-53815","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-data-analytics-marketing-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/53815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/53815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=53815"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=53815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}