Parks Sees Silver Lining for MVPDs in Wi-Fi, Broadband Frustrations at Home
U.S. broadband households have average 9.1 connected devices, putting increasing demands on networks, Parks data show, with sales of such devices seen reaching 442 million by 2020. More than 60 percent of such households received their router from their ISP,…
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the researcher reported Wednesday. If a household with five accounts streamed HD video simultaneously, it would need at least 30 Mbps for optimal viewing, said the report done for Calix. The average connection is 18.7 Mbps, Akamai finds, and Cisco forecasts consumer VOD traffic will nearly double by 2021, said Parks. Streaming media use strains home networks: nearly 70 percent of U.S. households subscribe to at least one over-the-top service, the firm said. In the past year, 37 percent of U.S. broadband households reported “slow” Wi-Fi networks, and nearly a fifth of consumers said their Wi-Fi network stops working “almost weekly.” The rapidly growing installed base of devices creates opportunities for MVPD support for premium Wi-Fi performance, universal support for IoT devices and data security from edge devices to the cloud, said Parks.