TV is not the only way to watch this year's games however, with many broadcasters across the world placing significant emphasis on providing live streaming options so subscribers can watch the games on their computer, tablet, or smartphone wherever they are. In the US, NBC has come under some fire for not streaming all events (such as the opening ceremonies), as well as for only allowing subscribers who have a cable or satellite package to live stream events. Even with those restrictions in place we still think the streaming will be wildly popular with subscribers, so we decided to take a look at how NBC's Live Extra Olympic Streaming has contributed to fixed access network traffic in the US. Below is a chart showing the volume and share of traffic for NBC's Olympic streaming over the weekend. At its peak on Sunday at around 10:00am it accounted for almost 15% of total network traffic. At this time, we believe most people were likely streaming swimming preliminaries, a hypothesis reinforced by the fact that the second peak seen at around 3:00pm also coincided with another swimming event, the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. Be sure to keep in mind that the chart above has two axes that shows traffic share (green line), as well as absolute traffic levels (blue line). This is important to note because despite that second peak on Sunday showing a roughly 3% lower traffic share, Olympic streaming traffic by volume was actually 16% higher at 3pm due to