Netflix is now throttling its streaming offer in Europe
from Felix Reitmaier 
on March 19, 2020, 22:12 pm | 🔥 popular | Write a comment
Netflix is now throttling streaming in Europe. The US company officially announced this on Thursday evening. The reason is the increased amount of data due to the coronavirus. In some cases, entire networks even collapsed.
The corona virus has dominated the news for weeks. The coronavirus has also had a massive impact on the Internet. The network load has increased significantly in the past few days due to the streaming of these services. In some cases, the networks temporarily collapsed due to the overload.
In Switzerland it should, according to reports, the New Zurich newspaper the Swisscom network was repeatedly overloaded. The Federal Council even threatened to block “non-supply-related services”. But data traffic has also increased significantly in Germany due to the corona virus, so the data traffic at a hub in Frankfurt is loud DE-CIX to 10 Procent increased. The main reason for this is probably that significantly more employees are working from home. As a result, there are significantly more telephone conferences, so the use of video telephony is to be increased by 50 Proto have risen cent. But the use of streaming services has also increased in recent days.
EU Commission issued a recommendation for Netflix throttling
The EU Commission discussed the situation with Netflix today, Thursdayprochen. In the evening, Netflix then announced that the bit rate of the streaming content would increase by 30 Procent is lowered. This is said to be Netflix's 25th year Prouse less data. The EU Commission now hopes that this will stabilize the European grids. It remains to be seen whether other streaming providers will follow suit. A throttling of YouTube and Prime Video now seems anything but unlikely.
