'Video viewing' occupies the majority of the world's Internet traffic

by Cris Ovalle

In the video distribution service such as Netflix and Amazon prime video, content that is missing even if there is enough time to start watching movies, drama, animation etc. once is prepared. In fact, the number of viewers seems to be quite large, 58% of the down stream (the downstream) of the world's net traffic is based on video viewing.

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This was found in a report published by network equipment vendor Sandvine.

The most traffic was Netflix with 15% of the total. Subsequently, 13.1% for HTTP media stream, 11.4% for YouTube, 7.9% browsing. The MPEG transport stream continues at 4.4%. When narrowing down to the genre of video streaming, Netflix is ​​26.6%, which is one quarter of the genre.

By region, in Europe it is ranked 1st on YouTube, 2nd in Netflix, 1st in Asia Pacific, HTTP Media Stream, 2nd in Facebook, 3rd in Netflix "First in the World" Although it is not, in the United States it is 19.1% and occupies a large proportion, ranking first.

According to the report, there are cases that Netflix occupies more than 40% of traffic in the US in the evening peak usage.

In addition, the "file sharing" which was once a topic of traffic is still the top traffic in Europe and the Asia Pacific region in the upstream (upstream) and the second place in the United States.