Currently, video transmissions make up between 45 and 50 percent of all internet traffic, depending on the study. By 2016, this number is expected to rise to as much as 65 percent.
The figures are unsurprising. YouTube and other multimedia offerings promise easy-to-consume information and entertainment. And with offerings like Telekom Entertain and Vodafone TV, the internet is expected to begin threatening traditional TV access such as cable and satellite.
But how will the networks handle the high volume of video data flow on a day-to-day basis? connect, together with its landline-measurement partner zafaco, investigated this question; from mid-December to mid-January, using nearly 350,000 individual measurements of TV and video quality on German landlines, they got to the bottom of it.
Read the detailed report in connect 03/2014.