Octets means bytes, and in fact it also the most used french word in lieu of byte. Historically, and very long long ago, the point is that byte was not always 8 bits - there were very old mainframes with 9 bits.

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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 11:28:11 +0200
From: Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
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Subject: Re: Accounting and octets - a silly one!
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Thanks all for clearing it up - as I said, really stilly question :-)

I must have pulled some old stuff off google then that referenced
octets as *possibly* being bits...

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Arran Cudbard-Bell
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> On 3 Apr 2014, at 09:36, Chaigneau, Nicolas <nicolas.chaigneau@capgemini.com> wrote:
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>> "octets" means "bytes".
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> Yes, in modern systems they are synonymous.
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