What stands out most clearly is the fact that Real-Time Entertainment’s traffic share is almost identical on both networks, demonstrating that high bandwidth streaming audio and video traffic is of such high value to all subscribers that they are unwilling to stop or alter the way the consume it even though they have a cap placed on their monthly usage.

What is also interesting is how much lower a share Filesharing traffic has on networks with UBB compared to those who do not have it. This demonstrates that subscribers may be mindfully limiting their use of Filesharing applications, which often generate traffic in both the upstream and downstream direction. Additionally, aside from being a good peer (which is likely of little importance to occasional Filesharing users), there is little direct benefit to uploading content, so that might well be the first activity that is stopped. It may even be possible that Real-Time Entertainment has a slightly higher share on networks with UBB due in part to the fact subscribers are getting more of their content via Real-Time Entertainments sources which are typically more efficient (if you consider the value proposition to be “equal entertainment for less aggregate usage”) than Filesharing, since there is relatively little upstream traffic associated with streaming.

But what about the traffic profile during off peak hours? The figure below shows that when comparing the two types of networks the overall make-up has little difference than peak hours, with the disparity between the share of Filesharing traffic actually increasing slightly. This is to be expected since Filesharing applications typically run continuously throughout the night when other application usage drops off substantially – since people are sleeping.

Coverage has included stories in a number of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Variety, and GigaOm. While the focus of many of these stories has been the growth of Real-Time Entertainment (as depicted in the chart below), and the dominance of Netflix on North American fixed access networks, there are plenty of other facts and figures that we think are pretty cool.