We often talk about the big brands on the internet and their dominance. Last year, I did a spotlight on Asia that showed that Google was over 40% of the connections in Asia, and in the mobile report, Facebook was...
By Sandvine October 17, 2019
"Ask Sandvine" is a video blog series where we answer questions you may have about our company, solutions, products, technologies, or anything else you'd like to know about Sandvine.
Topics: Active network intelligence, Ask sandvine, Use cases, Solutions, Machine learning
By Trish Crompton, Product Marketing Manager October 16, 2019
It started out with a simple Netflix subscription, around $7.99 USD per month to be free from space-hogging DVDs and to leisurely binge TV shows without ads. Sounds great, right?
Topics: Video, Netflix, Amazonprime, Video streaming, Hbo, Hulu, Disney, 4k, Apple tv
By Trish Crompton, Product Marketing Manager October 10, 2019
Video is taking over! At this point it feels like a broken record, but in reality… well, it is the reality.
By Sandvine October 3, 2019
We're here to introduce "Ask Sandvine", a video blog series where we answer questions you may have about our company, solutions, products, technologies, or anything else you'd like to know about Sandvine.
Topics: Automation, Ask sandvine, Use cases, Right data, Intent
By Alexander Haväng - Chief Technical Officer September 11, 2019
Google’s Stadia is hitting our networks in November, and Nvidia’s GeForce Now is imminent as well. What is this cloud gaming stuff, really?
Topics: Automation, Global internet phenomena, Active network intelligence, Gaming, Google stadia
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 9, 2019
I got asked a really good question on Friday as I was presenting a preview of the report to a strategic Sandvine customer. In an earlier blog on the percentage of video traffic, I ask: "How much video can we watch?" The question asked during the session was: "Or what if 10% of video suddenly moved to HD?" A follow up to the initial question came shortly...
Topics: Video streaming, Global internet phenomena
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 6, 2019
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction – and the market success of Netflix has caused a massive pendulum swing in the market. Netflix grew popular as an aggregator of video, essentially giving users the ability to watch a wide variety of content from a single account. Amazon Prime and Hulu followed, and now every content owner is...
Topics: Netflix, Video streaming, Global internet phenomena
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 5, 2019
Last year, I wrote a blog on the increase in file sharing on networks, and it was a tad controversial. There were a few challenges from various angles on this specific statistic that came from reasonable places. First, there had been a lapse in the Phenomena Reports for almost two years and, second, we were now drawing from a vastly different data set...
Topics: File sharing, Piracy
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 4, 2019
In the 2019 Mobile Phenomena Report, TikTok was #11 overall on mobile networks, coming out of nowhere. Normally, mobile-centric applications do not do well in the Global Report, as they get lost in the flood of high bandwidth video and download traffic. TikTok, despite being a mobile-focused application, climbed the charts this year significantly.
Topics: Global internet phenomena, Tiktok, Api
By Cam Cullen - VP of Global Marketing September 3, 2019
When we think about the upstream traffic that dominates the internet in most regions, we see a lot of video traffic consisting of packet acknowledgements and bookmarking of progress in watching videos, as well as messaging traffic. In APAC, cloud traffic consumes more than 50% of all upstream traffic volume, and shows no sign of slowing down.
Topics: Cloud services, Global internet phenomena
