Open Vault Broadband Insights Report Quarter 1 2024

Broadband providers’ upstream capacity continues to be subject to ongoing increases in consumption that are putting more pressure on the most capacity-constrained parts of the network—a key takeaway from this first quarter 2024 edition of the OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report. While the overall upward rise in downstream usage includes seasonal spikes and dips, the trend in upstream consumption is more consistently upward. This 1Q24 edition of the OVBI also continues tracking the new category of extreme power users who consume 5 TB or more of data per month, and their massive impact on upstream usage. Extreme power users consume almost 1 TB of upstream capacity per month, on average, meaning that their impact on the network is magnified.