Petabits (Pbit) to Exabytes (EB) Conversion

Petabits

The petabit (Pbit) is a unit of digital information equal to 10¹⁵ bits. It is used to describe the aggregate capacity of large networks and data centre interconnects. Global internet traffic was estimated at several hundred exabits per month in 2022 — where one exabit equals 1,000 petabits. National telecommunications backbone networks and the largest internet exchange points are measured in petabits per second of total switching capacity.

Exabytes

The exabyte (EB) is a unit of digital information equal to 10¹⁸ bytes (1,000 petabytes). It represents the scale of total global data creation and consumption. According to IDC estimates, the global datasphere — the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed — surpassed 100 zettabytes (100,000 exabytes) per year in the early 2020s. The exabyte is primarily a unit of planning and forecasting at the level of cloud providers and national data infrastructure.

Convert Petabits (Pbit) to other units of Data