internet traffic

The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year.

Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix.

In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet traffic generated by Netflix has outgrown that of BitTorrent.

Most streaming Netflix has been the single biggest source of North American Internet traffic during prime-time hours for a while now, another significant data point in the shift away from traditional sources of movies and TV.

The latest report from the Sandvine research firm shows the trend continues, with Netflix now capturing almost 33 percent of peak downstream traffic.now goes to non-PC devices

Native iOS application arrives for the device that generates more than 97% of tablet Internet traffic.

Consolidation seems to be behind the decrease, as Cisco says overall Internet traffic will jump 400% in four years while the Dell'Oro Group says 10-Gbps top-of-rack switches will top $1 billion in sales this year.

President Obama has threatened to veto legislation overturning the agency's ability to regulate broadband Internet traffic.

Why bother competing if you can just get a patent instead? Nielsen, who was once sued for violating a patent ("5675510") for the invention of a "computer use meter and analyzer," has now sued competitor Comscore over the same patent, which it eventually came into possession of after settling the lawsuit by buying the patent from Jupiter Media Metrix.

In April 2010, 15 percent of all Internet traffic was suddenly diverted through Chinese servers, including data from the US military, NASA, and the US government. Blame it on "IP hijacking."

More ocean-spanning cable lines will be needed to string together the Internet. In five to seven years, for example, the transatlantic fiber optic cables linking the United States to Europe will run out of capacity.

ServerWatch: "The open source proxy server and accelerator Squid has been around since the mid-1990s, helping speed up Internet traffic at both the user and the server end."

74 Democrats signed a joint letter to the FCC supporting internet throttling by Verizon, ATT and Comcast.

Throttling lets carriers slow or block internet traffic. This is a clear attack on net neutrality.