Peer Connections are counted by the number of unique peer ids that are created in a session. For each participant in a room, a unique peer id is generated. 


So for example, two people talking on a video call for any length of time would be measured as 2 peer connections.  If five people were on the video call, it would be counted as 5 peer connections.


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