Largest Thai ISP Caches P2P Traffic
Trading small 5 megabyte songs doesn’t considerably hamper a ISPs bandwidth, yet 4.5 gigabyte DVD rips shared among millions of people does. Internet Service Providers aren’t stupid, and realize the success of the broadband revolution is largely attributable to the activities transpiring on P2P and file-sharing networks.
To some extent ISPs have in effect become victims of their own success. With a majority of their traffic absorbed by file-sharing, ISPs are in a continuous state of upgrading and investing their networks – a very costly affair. To mitigate these costs, ISPs have two choices; block P2P traffic or cache P2P traffic.

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