[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #468: What are we doing with the Internet?

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OPLIN 4cast #468: What are we doing with the Internet?
December 16th, 2015

[image: lit fiber] Last week, the Sandvine company released its latest
Global Internet Phenomena Report (see first link below) and created a bit
of interest in the tech media, because it reported that video and audio
traffic on the Internet in North America now constitute 70% of all Internet
usage. If it seems like a lot of your library patrons are watching videos
on your Internet computers, you're probably right. But beyond this headline
grabbing statistic, the report contains interesting information about
Internet usage trends outside North America, in Africa and the Middle East,
where some things can be very different, while other things can be very
similar.

   - Global Internet Phenomena Report: Africa, Middle East & North America
   <http://www.internetphenomena.com/2015/12/global-internet-phenomena-report-africa-middle-east-north-america/>
   (Sandvine Internet Phenomena blog | Dan Deeth) "Real-Time Entertainment
   (streaming video and audio) traffic now accounts for over 70% of North
   American downstream traffic in the peak evening hours on fixed access
   networks. Five years ago it accounted for less than 35%. Netflix (37.1%),
   YouTube (17.9%), and Amazon Video (3.1%), the top three sources of video
   traffic on fixed access networks in North America, all saw an increase in
   traffic share over the levels observed earlier in the year."
   - We're just using Netflix's Internet
   <http://www.zdnet.com/article/were-just-using-netflixs-internet/> (ZDNet
   | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols) "True, with the growth of streaming video,
   BitTorrent downstream traffic share declined in fixed access bandwidth
   share to a mere 5 percent of total traffic in North America. But, upstream
   traffic is still dominated by file torrents. Torrent upstream traffic now
   makes up 29 percent of all US Internet traffic in North America during peak
   hours."
   - Streaming video now accounts for 70 percent of broadband usage
   <http://recode.net/2015/12/07/streaming-video-now-accounts-for-70-percent-of-broadband-usage/>
   (Re/code | Peter Kafka) "What's that? You've heard that mobile is the
   future of the Internet and you'd like to see what's going on there, too?
   Same story, but different: Video and audio - primarily YouTube - dominate
   mobile usage, too. But social - basically Facebook and Snapchat - are also
   big. Video/audio accounts for 41 percent of mobile traffic, and social eats
   up 22 percent."
   - WhatsApp is how Facebook will dominate the world
   <http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-stats-show-whatsapp-is-how-facebook-will-dominate-the-world/>
   (Wired | Cade Metz) "In a larger sense, this shows that the Internet is
   evolving differently in the developing world than it has here in the US.
   Because network and phone technologies aren't as mature-and because people
   have less money to spend on tech-low-bandwidth messaging apps like WhatsApp
   have become a primary gateway onto the Internet as whole. In Africa, web
   browsing accounts for 22 percent of mobile traffic, about twice as much as
   WhatsApp. But no other individual service is even close to WhatsApp's
   numbers. Not YouTube. Not BitTorrent. Not Facebook."

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Digital fairness vs. Facebook's dream of world domination.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=110320331>
   (*Harvard Business Review*, Nov. 2015, p.1-4)
   - A continent connects.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=103652016>
   (*PM Network*, July 2015, p.30-37 | Steve Hendershot)
   - Will Africa take the lead in the Internet of Things?
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=100430588>
   (*African Business*, Jan. 2015, p.24 | Finbarr Toesland)

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