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The time has come for more vigilance about the impact of individual applications on quality of experience across networks

As Netflix’s “Squid Game” stretches its tentacles across the Internet, “net neutrality” issues have resurfaced with new vigor. The recent lawsuit by SK Broadband against Netflix has drawn attention to the amount of data traffic...

Getting the most out of 5G use cases requires a combination of accurate data, real-time analytics and robust policy enforcement

More than 18 months of COVID-driven transformations have led you to rethink what’s possible beyond present-day networks, databases and systems. As you make investments in 5G, cloud, machine-learning, and multi-access edge...

The role service providers can play and why Video Quality of Experience matters to their success

The popularity and at times necessity of mobile video and live streaming for entertainment, learning, and working in a still pandemic-influenced world has blown past even some of the most bullish predictions, and for good reason: it’s active and interactive,...

5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is expected to be one of the most lucrative early use cases for 5G as it allows both fixed and mobile service providers to expand their market reach in a cost effective way. This is especially the case where fiber is too expensive to roll out and maintain in the last mile in many suburban and rural areas, yet consumer and...

Our mobile devices are now rarely out of reach. From the instance your alarm wakes you up in the morning to the last social media thumb scroll, our mobile devices are constantly by our side.A mobile network is fascinating between these two moments throughout the typical day - when commuting to work, standing in line for coffee, grabbing lunch, taking the...

Sandvine’s ActiveLogic receives industry recognition for delivering network intelligence across all access technologies

It has almost been a full year of work-from-home, social distancing, and all the other things that COVID-19 changed about the world.One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 effect was the heightened attention to the importance of...

The COVID-19 worldwide stay-at-home orders have created unprecedented internet changes that continue to shift as the crisis continues. The biggest shift is that enterprise, education, and public WiFi traffic have now (mostly) collapsed onto a single access network — fixed consumer broadband. This is the first time that we have an opportunity to get a more...

"With people working from home, VPN usage will increase." Another far out prediction we made when the work from home mandates began to spread worldwide. Security is so critical to corporate IT strategies, and most companies of any size mandate the use of a VPN to access corporate resources. As content and more corporate services move into the cloud, the use...

One of the first predictions I made when the stay-at-home orders began to spread globally was that we would see an increase in gaming traffic. Not the most controversial prediction to be sure, but one that actually has a major impact on network operators since gaming can be both a network congestion source with massive gaming downloads, but also a quality...

Since the pandemic started, I have been deluged with inbound requests for updates on what has happened to video traffic during the shutdowns. Up until now, there has not really been an impact on the volume of video traffic overall, with one exception in a shift of content preferences. For the first time that I have seen in the Global Data, YouTube is above...