61.44% of P2P traffic is video, 11.34% is audio

daRk_heLmet · Aug 11, 2005, 05:01 AM

CacheLogic conducted direct packet monitoring of Internet backbones and ISPs data streams via Layer 7 packet analysis. 61.44% of current peer-to-peer traffic is video, 11.34% is audio, 27.22% belongs to other category. On a global scale, 46% of P2P traffic is video in Microsoft formats. 65% of all audio files by volume of traffic are still traded in the MP3 format, but a surprising 12.3% are in the open-source OGG file format (almost all of which are exclusively traded on the BitTorrent network, particularly in Asia).
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daRk_heLmet · Aug 11, 2005, 05:05 AM

Will the pirates plaease stand up ?

brywalker · Aug 11, 2005, 05:24 AM

Thats because audio only pr0n sucks.

quazi · Aug 11, 2005, 05:31 AM

Do they classify the P2P usage in data transfered or number of files? Video files are a shitload bigger than audio files (DVD quality video is around 8000mb/s of video data, not including an audio track) so it would stand to reason, that although more people download music, video traffic will dominate it in terms of used bandwidth.

I wonder if someone downloads an album of music in a zipped file, does that count as downloading audio? I find it unlikely that it does, and that's the way big music files are transferred.

Sargentwhitey · Aug 11, 2005, 10:08 AM

Heh, the record companies would be afraid if this report got out on a large scale.

Aug 11, 2005, 05:01 AM	#1
daRk_heLmet Keep firing, assholes! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Death Star Posts: 1,072 Rep Power: 0	61.44% of P2P traffic is video, 11.34% is audio CacheLogic conducted direct packet monitoring of Internet backbones and ISPs data streams via Layer 7 packet analysis. 61.44% of current peer-to-peer traffic is video, 11.34% is audio, 27.22% belongs to other category. On a global scale, 46% of P2P traffic is video in Microsoft formats. 65% of all audio files by volume of traffic are still traded in the MP3 format, but a surprising 12.3% are in the open-source OGG file format (almost all of which are exclusively traded on the BitTorrent network, particularly in Asia). _________________ Source: ZDNet Blogs __________________ [color=white]My Blog[/color]

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Aug 11, 2005, 05:31 AM	#4
quazi DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 66 Rep Power: 0	Do they classify the P2P usage in data transfered or number of files? Video files are a shitload bigger than audio files (DVD quality video is around 8000mb/s of video data, not including an audio track) so it would stand to reason, that although more people download music, video traffic will dominate it in terms of used bandwidth. I wonder if someone downloads an album of music in a zipped file, does that count as downloading audio? I find it unlikely that it does, and that's the way big music files are transferred. Last edited by quazi; Aug 11, 2005 at 06:18 AM.

Aug 11, 2005, 10:08 AM	#5
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Aug 11, 2005, 05:24 AM	#3
brywalker DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 87 Rep Power: 0	Thats because audio only pr0n sucks.