What’s Really In A Gigabyte?

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A typical subscriber in North America downloads over 57GB of data each month, but what does that much information look like?

Network usage is proliferating exponentially, driven in large part by video streaming, according to the latest Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report. The typical subscriber in North America consumes an average of around 57GB of data each month, which represents a 13GB increase from the 44.5 GB just one year ago. It’s also important to note that a large percentage of users greatly exceed the Sandvine published average, using in the hundreds of gigabits per month.

The sheer volume of information at our fingertips can be easy to take for granted without a bit of context.

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