Cisco Expects P2P Traffic to Double by 2014

[Blitzen]

Does this mean ISP`s will in the future start throttling/blocking video streaming as they did p2p during peak times if it is set to become the biggest bandwidth consumer .......

http://torrentfreak.com/cisco-expects-p2p-traffic-to-double-by-2014-100611/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

Data consumption patterns on the Internet have changed rapidly over the last years. Just five years ago some studies estimated that up to three quarters of all the bandwidth on the Internet was consumed by P2P traffic. At the end of last year this bandwidth share was down to 39% according to Cisco, and by 2014 it is expected to go down even further to 17%.

This doesn’t mean that there is a decline in interest for P2P or BitTorrent though, as the absolute traffic numbers are expected to rise year after year doubling to 7 Petabytes per month in the next four years. However, as the rest of the total Internet traffic grows even stronger because of Youtube and other streaming sites, P2P traffic as a percentage of all Internet traffic will decline.

By the end of this year, P2P traffic will not be the largest Internet traffic type for the first time since 2000. Internet video traffic is expected to take over this honorary title for now, but this may very well change in the future as P2P video streaming will be widely adopted.

[Bluey_412]

Ho Hum...

[Blitzen]

Why do you bother bluey? you just add random jibber jabba to so many threads (mainly ones by me). Why don`t you try adding something constructive maybe even start your own topic on something of interest or is such an exercise beyond your capabilities!!

[']['affy]

i don't think they will throttle or even block streaming content but will infact make u so u will have to subscribe to the service to view it sorta like pay per view

and please bluey and blitzen keep to the topic at hand if u havent got anything productive to say don't make a comment.