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The time has come for more vigilance about the impact of individual applications on quality of experience across networks

As Netflix’s “Squid Game” stretches its tentacles across the Internet, “net neutrality” issues have resurfaced with new vigor. The recent lawsuit by SK Broadband against Netflix has drawn attention to the amount of data traffic...

Sandvine’s ActiveLogic receives industry recognition for delivering network intelligence across all access technologies

It has almost been a full year of work-from-home, social distancing, and all the other things that COVID-19 changed about the world.One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 effect was the heightened attention to the importance of...

The COVID-19 worldwide stay-at-home orders have created unprecedented internet changes that continue to shift as the crisis continues. The biggest shift is that enterprise, education, and public WiFi traffic have now (mostly) collapsed onto a single access network — fixed consumer broadband. This is the first time that we have an opportunity to get a more...

In a recent chat with one of my friends, I made reference to the toilet paper crisis of 2020, which for some is eclipsing the real crisis of 2020 – COVID-19.

2020 marks a lot of things for a lot of people – new year, new decade – but at Sandvine, it marks the 10^th year of the Global Internet Phenomena Report. Since its inception, the report has established Sandvine as the ultimate authority of internet traffic trends. These trends drive network operators’ strategies for delivering and monetizing their network...

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?

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...

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 looking...

The 2019 Global Internet Phenomena Report is almost in the bag, so it is time to start the pre-report series of blogs where I "leak" data out from the report — we might even call this the "Hidden Cam Show," where I expose data for the whole world to see! The Internet Phenomena data this year is even more interesting than last year (at least to me) and the...