{"id":7155,"date":"2026-01-26T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadabiznews.ca\/press-releases\/pr\/live-sports-streaming-remains-the-biggest-challenge-for-isps-netskrt-survey\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:49:36","slug":"live-sports-streaming-remains-the-biggest-challenge-for-isps-netskrt-survey","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/canadabiznews.ca\/press-releases\/pr\/live-sports-streaming-remains-the-biggest-challenge-for-isps-netskrt-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Sports Streaming Remains the Biggest Challenge for ISPs: Netskrt Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Internet Service Providers say the right CDN strategies improve Quality of Experience<\/i><\/p>\n

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA, January 26, 2026 \/EINPresswire.com<\/a>\/ — Live sporting events continue to present the biggest streaming challenge for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide, and spikes in traffic during American football games cause the most worry, Netskrt announced today. Those were two of the findings from Netskrt\u2019s State of the ISP Industry Survey.<\/p>\n

Conducted between May and August 2025, the survey garnered detailed responses from professionals at 55 global ISPs in order to better understand the way major events impact network performance, customer satisfaction, and operational priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese findings put real numbers on what we’ve long known,\u201d said Netskrt Cofounder and CRO Lars Cavi. \u201cLive sports push service providers to their limits. ISPs need tools that allow them to efficiently handle the traffic spikes associated with live sports, which can often be 5-10 times daily averages. Netskrt was built to seamlessly handle traffic peaks for ISPs while delivering the quality of experience viewers expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The survey found that live sports streaming is by far the most stressful content category for ISPs:
\n78% of respondents said sports cause them the most concern when it comes to streaming reliability.
\nAmong those, 70% pointed to American football as the most challenging sport to deliver, but international football is quickly approaching similar levels.
\nNearly 75% of ISPs report their network traffic spikes by up to 200% during live sporting events, amplifying congestion and buffering risks.<\/p>\n

More than half of ISPs identified traffic congestion and buffering as their most common technical hurdles during live streams. A full third said buffering alone was their top issue, further emphasizing the pressure live sports place on network capacity and QoE. ISPs do not know directly when buffering occurs; they only learn of it when they field complaints from their users.<\/p>\n

ISPs reported a few tangible improvements:
\nMany ISPs appreciate knowing which CDN carries which content, as that helps them to optimize performance.
\n77% found Netskrt\u2019s monitoring function to be highly or moderately beneficial in helping them maintain visibility and control over live traffic.
\nOver one-third of respondents who had implemented Netskrt said customer complaints decreased after they did so.<\/p>\n

ISP Survey webpage: https:\/\/www.netskrt.io\/survey-state-of-isp-industry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

About Netskrt<\/p>\n

Netskrt is disrupting the CDN space by improving economics up and down the streaming value chain while focusing on use cases that deliver large and complex content downloads. Live tier-one sports, hotly anticipated game drops, and video-on-demand are delivered more efficiently and with higher quality of experience. The Netskrt CDN accomplishes this through dynamically instantiated capacity, global reach, and last-mile awareness.
\nFor more about Netskrt, please visit https:\/\/www.netskrt.io<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark A Naples
\nWIT Strategy
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