See our brief review of Arbor Networks’ new two-year study where they captured and analyzed 264 exabytes of Internet traffic. Highlights:
- Internet traffic growing at least 45% annually.
- Web video jumped to 52% of all Internet traffic from 42%.
- P2P, although still substantial, dropped more than any other application.
- Google, between 2007 and 2009, jumped from outside the top-ten global ISPs by traffic volume to the number 3 spot.
- Comcast jumped from outside the top-ten to number 6.
- Content delivery networks (CDNs) are now responsible for around 10% of global Internet traffic.
- This fast-changing ecosystem is not amenable to rigid rules imposed from a central authority, as would be the case under “net neutrality” regulation.
