From CNET: The streaming-video service remains, by far, the biggest source of downstream Internet traffic during peak evening viewing hours in North America. But jostling in the lower ranks are Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go and even Facebook, suggesting changes in where we watch online video and the intensifying competition in Netflix's shadow.
"With both Netflix and Amazon Instant Video gaining bandwidth share in North America during 2014, it will be fascinating to see how a standalone HBO Go streaming option will impact networks when it launches in 2015," Dave Caputo, chief executive of network equipment maker Sandvine, said Thursday in the company's twice-a-year "Global Internet Phenomena Report." Caputo was referring to HBO's plans to open its Internet offering to people who aren't subscribers via cable or satellite.
Over the past six months, Netflix accounted for 35 percent of traffic on fixed-access networks in North America during the busiest watching time of the day -- the evening -- up slightly from 34 percent from the previous six months, according to the report.
YouTube, at No. 2, represented 14 percent of the traffic and also saw a single-percentage-point gain from six months earlier.
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