European peer-to-peer network users are abandoning traditionally popular applications like Kazaa in favor of new P2P software, according to new research. A study released Tuesday by network equipment manufacturer Sandvine has found big differences between the North American P2P market and that of Europe. While applications that are based on FastTrack–such as Kazaa and Grokster–still dominate in the United States, they have less sway in other countries.
In Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel, eDonkey is the rising star, which Sandvine says is evidence that the file-sharing sector is now an evolving, multiapplication environment. This recent entrant to the file-swapping scene accounts for 52 percent of all upstream P2P traffic in Germany, compared with 44 percent for FastTrack-based applications, 3.6 percent for WinMX and 0.4 percent for Gnutella. In Israel, the split is 52 percent eDonkey to 47 percent FastTrack. PC users in the United Kingdom favor FastTrack (59 percent of all upstream traffic), but both WinMX and eDonkey play a major role, with 20 percent of the P2P activity each.
Source Cnet
