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Netflix represents 31.6% of streaming net traffic

beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,553 ✭✭✭
edited January 2014 in General Discussion
November 11, 2013 | 04:00AM PT

YouTube and Netflix represented more than 50% of downstream traffic during peak hours in September, according to study.

Netflix remains the biggest pig in the broadband python, representing 31.6% of all downstream Internet traffic in North America during primetime hours in September - well ahead of any other streaming service, according to a new study.

The Internet video-subscription service, with more than 31 million streaming members in the U.S. alone, uses nearly 20 times more peak-period bandwidth than Amazon video, which has 1.6% share, and is 24 times bigger than Hulu (at 1.3%), according to the study by network-equipment maker Sandvine.

Meanwhile, YouTube usage continues to climb, with 18.6% share of downstream peak bandwidth in September (up from 17.1% in March). In North America, Netflix and YouTube combined now account for more than 50% of downstream traffic on fixed networks, according to Sandvine.

Peer-to-peer file-sharing apps like BitTorrent now eat up less than 10% of total daily traffic in North America, whereas five years ago they accounted for over 31%. Web browsing made up 9.7% of peak-period downstream bandwidth in the region, followed by Apple's iTunes at 3.3%.

In other parts of the world, YouTube is the biggest consumer of bandwidth. In Europe, YouTube represented of 28.7% of downstream traffic (followed by the web at 15.6%). In Latin America, YouTube's downstream share is 36.8% (followed by web browsing at 20%) and in Asia-Pacific, YouTube represents 31.2% (followed by BitTorrent 14.3% and web at 10.5%).

The data for Sandvine's "Global Internet Phenomena Report 2H2013#8243; report was compiled in September 2013 from a subset of the company's 250-plus service provider customers worldwide.

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Comments

  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,297 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is a lot of bandwidth.
    What I can't figure out is why Google or someone else big doesn't offer free TV programming. If they covered the royalties on any programming and offered it free they could own all the ad revenue.
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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