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P2P Remains Dominant Protocol

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the way-the-data-crumbles dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling — HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic. However a new article from Slyck disputes this, and contends that P2P remains the bandwidth heavyweight."

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  1. Nitpicking by TorKlingberg · · Score: 4, Informative

    P2P is not one protocol, but many. Some P2P systems, such as Gnutella, even use HTTP for file transfers.

  2. Than means NOTHING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    P2P (which is a class of applications, not a specific protocol) was created to deal with huge files. Of course it will generate a lot of traffic. Duh!

  3. conflict of interest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ellacoya are well-known for selling routers optimised (and I use that word with the kind of looseness only Goatse man can convey) for bandwidth shaping, in particular for throttling P2P. PlusNet were one of the first ISPs in the UK to be hated for widespread deployment of their kit.

    Remember, a press release is almost always marketing; and this form of marketing is about getting people to purcahse solutions for problems that don't quite exist as described. (Microsoft are good at this; Google are first rate.)

  4. Re:If I was designing a P2P network today by diamondsw · · Score: 2, Informative

    It'd be http based. Not for efficiency or any technical reason, but because it's the best camouflage.

    Welcome to layer 5-7 packet inspection on modern firewalls. You're screwed.

    --
    I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.