HDTV Almanac - Traffic Jam: Is the Internet Sky Falling?

Started by alfredpoor • May 1, 2012 • 2 posts

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#1 May 1, 2012 at 3:11 pm

An article by Stacey HigginbothamÂ for GigaOMÂ cites a fascinating statistic from the Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report. According to last fall’s version of the report,Â half of all our Internet use is related to video. Netflix and YouTube alone account for more than 37% of the total traffic. And according to the recently released spring update to [...]

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#2 May 5, 2012 at 4:45 am

I've been saying this for several years, but I'm not so optimistic and I do not view algorithms that mess with the resolution as positive. Note that this is not *free* content that so many worry about. OTOH if bandwidth causes a few streaming video dropouts I do not view it as "the sky is falling". Annoying? Yes, but not a calamity.