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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the global data visibility and traffic management market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Sandvine with the 2020 Global New Product Innovation Award. An updated version of Sandvine's PacketLogic platform, ActiveLogic, greatly enhances the visibility of an application's traffic,...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic people are downloading a lot of games

World Intellectual Property Day 2020 was April 26. While the world is grappling with COVID-19, homebound Americans are spending extra time enjoying movies, TV shows and music offered by commercial streaming services. Yet many Americans don’t stop to think that the almost unimaginable abundance of creative content they are consuming would not be available...

Torrenting and illegal streaming sites have seen a huge increase in traffic as people look for something to do while they're stuck inside.

European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton has been on the phone to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to officially request the streaming service slow down downloads.

A top European Union official called on Netflix and other streaming-video services to reduce video quality to standard-definition format — forgoing HD for now — so that internet networks don’t get overloaded during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Netflix will reduce streaming quality in Europe for at least the next month to prevent the internet collapsing under the strain of unprecedented usage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Can the internet withstand the coronavirus pandemic?

As the new coronavirus spreads across the US, forcing Americans into their homes for what could be months of waiting, here are five ways the telecom industry is being affected.

Cast your mind back to the Sept. 5, 1995. You probably don’t remember what you were doing on that day, but it was nonetheless an important one. Why? On that day, the world’s first live streaming event over the internet took place. It was an ESPN SportsZone radio broadcast of a Major League baseball game, and the cutting-edge technology that underpinned that...