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HTTP Traffic Surpasses P2P Traffic

June 23rd, 2007

Thanks to YouTube alone consuming some 10% of all internet traffic, P2P traffic is now down to only 36% of internet usage in North America.

After more than four years of P2P and file-sharing programs consuming the largest percentage of bandwidth on the network traffic in North America, HTTP, general web, traffic has overtaken P2P and continues to grow.

Due to the increasing demand for streaming audio and video in Web downloads, HTTP is now responsible for some 46% of all traffic. P2P continues as a strong second place at 37% of total traffic. Newsgroups at 9%, non-HTTP video streaming at 3%, gaming at 2%, and VoIP at 1% round out the list of application bandwidth usage.

It’s interesting to note how this news will hopefully change the mindset of ISPS in North America who have either already been throttling P2P traffic or were considering doing so since it was previously responsible for some 70% of all bandwidth usage.

Now, with online video streaming alone up 56% since last year, and the constant rise in the number of broadband and wi-fi connections making it possible, the amount of bandwidth usage attributed to HTTP traffic versus P2P traffic will only grow even greater.

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.