Jorge
June 24th, 2008, 03:00 PM
Company that helped Comcast throttle BitTorrent traffic also says the net neutrality debate will "be laughable in the next two or three years."
Sandvine is set to release a study tomorrow that will purportedly show that some 44% of network traffic on North American ISPs is consumed by P2P traffic.
The results are based on a survey that included several "leading" ISPs, but it's conclusions are subject to debate since it obviously has a stake in elevated results that prove the need for the equipment it sells them to throttle such traffic and free up network bandwidth.
From the study:
The three biggest overall generators of Internet traffic according to Sandvine’s May survey were: peer-to-peer file sharing (43.5%); Web browsing (27.
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Sandvine is set to release a study tomorrow that will purportedly show that some 44% of network traffic on North American ISPs is consumed by P2P traffic.
The results are based on a survey that included several "leading" ISPs, but it's conclusions are subject to debate since it obviously has a stake in elevated results that prove the need for the equipment it sells them to throttle such traffic and free up network bandwidth.
From the study:
The three biggest overall generators of Internet traffic according to Sandvine’s May survey were: peer-to-peer file sharing (43.5%); Web browsing (27.
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