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| YouTube outage highlights growth of streaming |
| Monday, 03 October 2011 00:00 |
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UK internet service provider (ISP) Plusnet has revealed the growing extent to which streaming video is dominating traffic during peak times.
According to figures compiled by the ISP, a glitch in the server system of YouTube resulted in the streaming media site going offline for a number of hours on September 29th and this resulted in a fall of almost 50 per cent in data transfers during this period. The incident took place between 21:00 and 22:00 BST last Thursday and the resultant drop in traffic saw Plusnet record a reduction from peak levels of more than 5.2 gigabytes per second (Gbps) to under 3 Gbps on its servers. Meanwhile, research from Knowledge Networks recently showed that younger people - those aged from 13 to 31 - are increasingly attracted to online streaming as a form of entertainment. The study showed that 56 per cent of people in this age group watch online TV or other forms of streaming media at least twice per week. Posted by Emma Johnson  |