November 8, 2012
At CNet, Don Reisinger highlights a new report showing the effect streaming video service Netflix has on America’s Internet traffic:
Netflix users are turning into the biggest data hogs in North America, a new report suggests.
The report from Sandvine, a company that sells Internet traffic-management systems, finds that Netflix use accounts for 33 percent of all downstream traffic in North America during the peak hours between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. By contrast, Amazon and Hulu only account for 1.8 percent and 1.4 percent of downstream traffic, respectively.
That’s a lot of movies and TV shows.