Netflix increases share of peak North American traffic to 38.5%: Sandvine report

WATERLOO – While Netflix continues to slowly increase its domination of North American fixed networks, Facebook and Google now control over 60% of total mobile traffic in Latin America, according to data from Sandvine.In its latest Global Internet Phenomena Report: Latin America & North America report, Sandvine found that Netflix now accounts for 38.5% of downstream traffic in the peak evening hours, and predicted that its recent decision to encrypt their service will result in the majority of Internet traffic in Latin America and North America being encrypted in 2016.Other highlights from the report include:- BitTorrent continues to see a...