For years, Netflix has ranked as the biggest application in terms of bandwidth consumption on internet networks, particularly during peak-period hours. But now Netflix has dropped to second place b…
has ranked as the biggest application in terms of bandwidth consumption on internet networks, particularly during peak-period hours.has dropped to second place behind web-based media streaming apps, as video consumption overall continues to climb, according to the 2019 Global Internet Phenomena Report from Sandvine, a vendor of bandwidth-management systems.
“This year, the aggregate volume of the long tail is actually greater than the largest of the short-tail providers,” Sandvine said in the report.. That reflects the growing consumption of other streaming options, both paid and free, with the biggest growth coming from operators’ own internet-delivered TV and video services , per Sandvine.Note that Netflix’s decline in bandwidth share doesn’t suggest people are streaming less video from the company.
All told, video was 60.6% of total downstream volume of traffic on the internet, up 2.9 percentage points from 2018, per Sandvine’s latest report. Web traffic was the next biggest category, with 13.1% share of downstream bits consumed globally followed by gaming at 8.0%, social media at 6.1% and file sharing at 4.2%.
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