The Super Bowl drove millions to their TV screens – and away from the computer. Internet traffic was down 15 percent Sunday night, despite the availability of a live stream of the event. Read more »
Thanks to more traffic that can be sent via CDNs and cached at the edge, the shape of the Internet is changing. Instead of data traveling back and forth over long-haul pipes, today’s Internet looks like streams of data flowing to reservoirs at the edge. Read more »
We all will watch 833 days of video every single second by 2016, and much of that video consumption won’t happen on the PC. Instead, we are seeing a huge growth of connected TV traffic, and video consumption on tablets is also skyrocketing. Read more »
In the net neutrality debate, Internet Service Providers talk about charging content providers for prioritization so they can invest in improving infrastructure. But placing a price on prioritizing content creates an inherent disincentive to expand. Professors Hsing Cheng, Shubho Bandyopadhyay and Hong Guo elaborate. Read more »
Internet traffic has grown 62 percent in 2010, after logging a handsome 74 percent growth in 2009. The growth in traffic is coming from non-mature markets likes Eastern Europe and India where traffic growth is over 100 percent. But what does it mean? Read more »
Utilities are raking in stimulus funds and smart meter manufacturers are working feverishly to imbue the grid with the smarts to redistribute the electrical load down to the household level when consumption rates spike. Envision automatically time shifting that EV charging or dish washing cycle to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
