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Video Sharing Traffic Larger Than Filesharing's


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A pair of recent studies suggests that for the first time in years, HTTP traffic consumes more network bandwidth than P2P file-sharing does, and that video sharing services are to blame.

It's no secret that P2P users have long consumed the lions share of a given ISP network's bandwidth but, with the rise in popularity of video sharing services such as YouTube, Google Video, Joost, Daily Motion, Guba, and others, it's percentage has fallen.

Ellacoya Networks Inc., in its survey of some 2 million broadband customers, discovered that HTTP traffic is now responsible for 39% of a network's bandwidth usage, compared to 37% for P2P traffic.

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