Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A bitstream or bit stream is a time series of bits. A bytestream is a series of bytes, typically of 8 bits each, and can be regarded as a special case of a bitstream. Bitstreams are used extensively in telecommunications and computing: for example, the SDH communications technology transports synchronous bitstreams, and the TCP communications protocol transports a bytestream without synchronous timing. Bitstream is also the name of a type foundry, see Bitstream Inc This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.