Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley’s Elite

Inside the offices—and servers—of the video streaming empire:

“On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined. Traffic to Netflix usually peaks at around 10 p.m. in each time zone, at which point a chart of Internet consumption looks like a python that swallowed a cow. By midnight Pacific time, streaming volume falls off dramatically.”

Source: Businessweek
Published: May 9, 2013
Length: 15 minutes (3,782 words)
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