Traffic Trends

Comparing the latest Ipoque's Internet-Study to previous traffic composition published e.g. by Telegeography; I see only a minor difference: P2P is still the king but video traffic has an increasingly dominant portion.

Traffic trends according to A. Oon (Equinix) at Menog :

• Accelerated growth in broadband services in Asia
• Major content providers & CDN deployment in Asia: Yahoo, Google, Akamai, Limelight
• Localized content growth
• 10G exchange deployments
• Continued exponential growth in P2P Traffic
• HD streaming video and VoIP
• Mass market gaming

Source Oon/Eqx

Source/Courtesy ipoque

Ipoque's Internet Study (2008):

• P2P generates most traffic in all regions
• The proportion of P2P traffic has decreased BitTorrent is still number one of all protocols, HTTP second
• The proportion of eDonkey is much lower than last year
• File hosting has considerably grown in popularity
• Streaming is taking over P2P users for video content
• Usenet, a file sharing alternative for P2P, appears in the statistics for the first time