Tuesday, October 13, 2009

P2P would represent more than 18% of Web traffic

In one study, whose full results will be published next October 19, the American company Arbor Networks said that the trade involving P2P networks will represent only 18% of world traffic, against nearly 40% in 2007. To do this, it indicates to have based on the analysis of some 264 exabytes (billion GB) of data having passed through routers 110 providers of Internet access worldwide. Web traffic (generated through a browser) would at the same time increased from 10 to nearly 50%.

Arbor Networks said to have based on an analysis of the packets on the network, rather than a study of procol employees in order to stick as closely to actual practice. However, it will wait to see how the data were interpreted. The chart below tends to show an analysis ports, or we know that more and more followers of other eMule and BitTorrent are not using the default port defined within the client.

How to explain this disaffection for P2P? It was not until the publication of the study to complete a comprehensive analysis but Wired, which relays Tuesday preliminary results ahead two tracks. The first is related to the development of broadcasting sites legal videos, first and foremost throne Hulu in the U.S., not forgetting of course platforms such YouTube and others, which open more widely to content provided by the studios and TV producers. The second, increasingly popular, is in direct download sites like Megaupload or Rapidshare. In France, the Hadopi it would be wrong target?

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