Streaming jumps to 71% of peak North American traffic: Sandvine

WATERLOO - Streaming audio and video now accounts for 71% of evening traffic in North American fixed access networks, and is projected to reach 80% by 2020, according to data from Sandvine.In its latest Global Internet Phenomena Report: Latin America & North America report, Sandvine found that Cloud Storage (Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, etc.) has surpassed Filesharing as the largest source of upstream traffic during peak period on North American fixed access networks. BitTorrent now accounts for less than 5% of total daily traffic in the region.Other highlights from the report include:- Netflix represented 35.2% of traffic on North America...