Why does the Bits/sec view differ from the byte view?

[KayesPotrinak]

As I'm reviewing the summary view of a datasource on our ASR9K router, I notice that the bytes view for a particular moment in time indicates 1.4 gigabytes, which roughly aligns with what we see in our Cacti instance for the same timeframe when converted to bits. However, when I switch to Bits/sec, it displays around 31 M bits/sec for that same period, which seems a bit perplexing. Is there something I'm missing in my understanding of this view?