Vox data - How much Netflix dominates in South Africa

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Netflix absolutely dominates on South African fibre networks

Netflix is South Africa's favourite online service by far, new data from major Internet service provider Vox shows.

The Internet domain where it hosts video content received more than double the hits than YouTube, and it also consumed 50% more bandwidth than Google's popular streaming service.
 
Steam is rather low on that list.
 
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How come adult websites more popular than torrenting?

But also great that when you have a good service you win:- Netflix. Assuming Vox has those Netflix red cabinets (their CDN stuff) hosted inside their data centers so it's not as expensive for them for their interconnect utilisation, etc
 
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Next article headline: "ISP ask Netflix for money to fund increased bandwidth and equipment"

Most consumers will see straight thru this as a money grab as consumers already paying $$$ for the line.
 
I see some tinfoils creeping out the woodwork.

Logs are normal, also reporting is normally highly summarized, not to mention the sheer size of logs to retain, crawl and crunch for good reporting.

One of our proxy servers dabbles in this, uncompressed logs for 30 minutes float in the 1.5Gb - 2Gb mark, with hundreds of thousands of entries. Had to dive into detail a while ago, needed special tools just to open the files ( try opening a 3Gb text file :p ).

LogExpert works well as you can filter result sets on the fly into sub logs but its a hell of a thing to crawl. I wouldn't want to even consider what a isps log crunching must be like, even for just analytics.
 
system32 said:
Next article headline: "ISP ask Netflix for money to fund increased bandwidth and equipment"

Most consumers will see straight thru this as a money grab as consumers already paying $$$ for the line.
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That's quite a stretch.
 
Kosmik said:
I see some tinfoils creeping out the woodwork.

Logs are normal, also reporting is normally highly summarized, not to mention the sheer size of logs to retain, crawl and crunch for good reporting.

One of our proxy servers dabbles in this, uncompressed logs for 30 minutes float in the 1.5Gb - 2Gb mark, with hundreds of thousands of entries. Had to dive into detail a while ago, needed special tools just to open the files ( try opening a 3Gb text file :p ).

LogExpert works well as you can filter result sets on the fly into sub logs but its a hell of a thing to crawl. I wouldn't want to even consider what a isps log crunching must be like, even for just analytics.
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You need better equipment... all that stuff should be rolled up into a decent SQL instance, then you don't need special tools :p
 
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ToxicBunny said:
You need better equipment... all that stuff should be rolled up into a decent SQL instance, then you don't need special tools :p
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Lol it is, it gets shipped off to a big data crunch layer but I needed to do some data inspection at the time, close to real time sooooo :p

Even then we don't store all the details, just the basic agent metrics, geo-location etc, nothing reversible, don't need that detail or privacy concern.
 
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Kosmik said:
Lol it is, it gets shipped off to a big data crunch layer but I needed to do some data inspection at the time, close to real time sooooo :p

Even then we don't store all the details, just the basic agent metrics, geo-location etc, nothing reversible, don't need that detail or privacy concern.
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Tut tut tut.. get better equipment... should be able to dump it into some sort of SQL setup in real time if you spent the proper money :p

Then you could also do some kick ass real time PowerBI reports for damagement :D
 
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ToxicBunny said:
Tut tut tut.. get better equipment... should be able to dump it into some sort of SQL setup in real time if you spent the proper money :p
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nah, no need. And the cost would be exhorbitant for detailed real-time, happy with delayed processing.

Although Spark and python are fun to debug when they break......
 
Remember those few years back when we as consumers kept saying that we don't need the high sea's if content was kept cheap enough.

Well there is the result.
 
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