[LINK] The YouTube effect: HTTP traffic now eclipses P2P

Antony Barry tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au
Sat Jul 7 14:48:40 AEST 2007



Begin forwarded message:


> From: Paul Brooks <paul-link at layer10.com.au>
> Date: 3 July 2007 6:01:57 PM
> To: Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
> Cc: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] The YouTube effect: HTTP traffic now eclipses P2P
>
>
> Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Ellacoya Networks, makers of deep packet inspection gear for  
>> carriers, has pulled together some statistics on one million  
>> broadband users in North America, and its findings show that HTTP  
>> traffic accounts for 46 percent of all broadband traffic. P2P  
>> applications now account for only 37 percent.
> ......
>> Networks that want to ensure priority transmission of VoIP calls,  
>> traditional HTTP web browsing, medical imaging, etc., have a  
>> strong incentive to throttle back that flood of non-critical  
>> traffic when the network is experiencing heavy loads. That could  
>> bring them into conflict with proponents of strict network  
>> neutrality, though, who don't want to see any sort of packet  
>> prioritization.
>
>> [Without having participated in that debate, my sense of it was  
>> that the wish for network neutrality and not favouring some  
>> streams over others was because of the (huge) risk of bias both  
>> being unfairly implemented, and opening the way for even nastier  
>> forms of favour/disfavour (read censorhip).]
> My sense is that the debate is less about censorship and more about  
> trying to prevent anticompetitive behaviour - although this  
> particular article seems to me to be more of a fairly transparent  
> plea for providers to purchase more Ellacoya boxes to do the  
> 'throttling back' of the non-critical traffic!
>
> Paul
>
>





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