said by AstroBoy:HOW? Assuming 300,000,000 people, that is an average of 291 KBytes per second per person!
Someone out there is skewing the average!
My math:
717,000,000,000,000/300,000,000/8/1024
8 is to convert from bits to Bytes.
1024 is to convert from Bytes to KBytes.
Did you read the report and the definitions that were part of it? Bandwidth is defined as CAPACITY & not Consumption. Karl added the term consumption(since corrected). That was NOT in the actual report.We estimate that by the end of 2008, U.S.
consumer bandwidth totaled almost 717 terabits
per second.
An important note: Bandwidth is not the same as data traffic. Bandwidth, for our purposes, is the capacity to
communicate. In other words: how much information, given the capacity of your various communications channels, could you
transmit and receive. Data traffic is a measure of how much information is actually transmitted.
