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Five key ingredients for success are: Architecture, App Classification, Measurement, Data Layer, Visualization Layer and Workflow

In this 5G tech turn, if you’re a CTO or VP of Planning, Big Data, Ops or Engineering you need to engineer massive capacity growth as we all become “heavy users.” You also need to improve application quality of experience, and...

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,...

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...

In a recent chat with one of my friends, I made reference to the toilet paper crisis of 2020, which for some is eclipsing the real crisis of 2020 – COVID-19.

I have been getting a lot of requests for data on what is happening worldwide with more people practicing social distancing, events being cancelled, and people working from home. Sandvine is in a unique position with our Global Internet Phenomena customer base to see what is happening and, more importantly for many people, what is GOING to happen.

2020 marks a lot of things for a lot of people – new year, new decade – but at Sandvine, it marks the 10^th year of the Global Internet Phenomena Report. Since its inception, the report has established Sandvine as the ultimate authority of internet traffic trends. These trends drive network operators’ strategies for delivering and monetizing their network...

We often talk about the big brands on the internet and their dominance. Last year, I did a spotlight on Asia that showed that Google was over 40% of the connections in Asia, and in the mobile report, Facebook was over 20% of all mobile traffic. I decided to dig through the Phenomena data to discover how the brands' library of applications and content would...