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U.S.-Canada bandwidth demand doubling every two years, says TeleGeography

WASHINGTON, D.C. — International bandwidth demand connected to and between the U.S. and Canada has more than doubled every two years between 2016 and 2020, according to new research from TeleGeography, a global telecommunications market research and consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and U.K. TeleGeography’s global bandwidth research also found total international bandwidth has more than quadrupled during the same time period, exceeding 2 Pbps (petabits per second – one petabit per second equals one quadrillion bits per second, or 1,000 terabits per second). “While mature markets typically grow slower than developing ones, that’s not the case when...