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Rio 2016: The Streaming Devices
Earlier this week, we published some preliminary data on Olympic streaming in the US. The highlights of that data was: Olympic streaming-only accounts for 1-2% of peak evening traffic Olympic...
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Rio 2016: Twitch Wins Sports Streaming Gold, Olympics Win Silver
Good news: The Olympics are back! Bad news: Primetime television ratings are down 32% compared to the last summer Olympics! so does that mean viewers are turning to streaming? Early numbers from NBC...
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Global Internet Phenomena Report 2016: Latin America & North America
Today we released our first Global Internet Phenomena Report of the year. This time around we are focusing on Latin America and North America. For those new to the blog, the Global Internet Phenomena...
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Traffic Spotlight: Winter Storm Jonas
A few years ago we covered the impact Hurricane Sandy had on one major city on the east coast of the US. With Winter Storm Jonas hitting the same city this past weekend, we thought we would take a...
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FIFA 16 – The Beautiful Game?
This will be a short blog post, but when a major operator in the US says “we registered it as our biggest “gaming” event in history”, I think it’s something worth of sharing. So what caused biggest...
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Global Internet Phenomena Report: Latin America & North America
Just a month ago, we published a Phenomena Spotlight on Encryption, but today we are back again with the first of three traditional Global Internet Phenomena Reports, Sandvine will issue in 2015. A...
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2015: The Year of Data Rollover
Last week I wrote a guest post at PCC Mobile Broadband where I made some predictions on what will be the next big thing on the Internet in 2015, and one thing we here at Sandvine are particularly...
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Conflicting Reports: Canadian ISP Rankings
Over the past few weeks, a couple of new metrics were released in both Canada and the US designed to measure subscribers’ Internet quality of experience (QoE). In Canada, Netflix brought back their...
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Twitch and Shout
One of the main findings of our recently released 1H 2014 Global Internet Phenomena Report was the fact that Twitch was gaining momentum on networks globally. Less than a week after our publication,...
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HBO GOes Down
Alright, Alright, Alright is something HBO GO users weren’t saying last night. HBO GO was offering subscribers (and perhaps a few of their friends) the ability to not only stream True Detective’s...
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Sochi Streaming: Canadian Men’s Hockey
Yesterday I posted stats that revealed on a Canadian network that has a mix of both consumer and business subscribers saw the Canada vs. US women’s hockey game account for 23% of network traffic...
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Sandvine’s Thoughts on the Net Neutrality Ruling in the US
Last week a US federal appeals court ruled that the “no blocking” and “no unreasonable discrimination” portions of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) December 23, 2010 Report and Order...
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Traffic Spotlight: Holiday Highs and Lows
Traffic Spotlight: Holiday Highs and Lows I spent a bunch of my holiday time in December and January relaxing with friends and family, I also had the opportunity to catch up on a bunch of longreads I...
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Unleashing the Super HD Streams
Contrary to popular thought and the overly-simplistic views of popular quality “benchmarks”, the Internet access provider is not the sole (or necessarily even the primary) influencer of subscribers’...
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Traffic Spotlight: Google Outage
Everybody relax. That Google outage on Friday likely did not cause global consumer internet traffic to instantly drop by 40%. Might it have still been significant? Absolutely. In our 1H 2013 Global...
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Untold Stories of the 1H 2013 Global Internet Phenomena Report: How Does...
At Sandvine, we’ve long argued that implementing UBB would likely have minimal (if any) impact on network congestion and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) during peak, as subscribers are unlikely...
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Super Bowl XLVII: The Return of the Super Dip
For the second year in a row, the Super Bowl was streamed online for viewers in the US. While many might think the big game might cause big demand on fixed access networks, the truth is while everyone...
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Traffic Spotlight: Hurricane Sandy
Traffic Spotlight: Hurricane Sandy With many people on the East coast in the US sent home from work or school yesterday in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, I thought I would examine how Internet usage...
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Traffic Spotlight: iPad Mini Launch
Some days I feel like I post too much Apple related stuff on this blog, but the truth of the matter is that Apple fans can use a lot of bandwidth, and that is of interest to our customers. Yesterday,...
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Traffic Spotlight: iOS 6 Launch Day
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” – Alan Kay On more than one occasion, Apple has mentioned the above quote during their new product introductions. They...
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