How Much Traffic Comes from P2P, Peer to Peer?

By admin | Jun 25, 2008

A study claims that as much as 44% of all internet traffic is coming from P2P (Peer to Peer) networks.  The 44% P2P statistic is according to a survey by Sandvine, a vendor of bandwidth-management systems.

What were the largest traffic generators on the Internet?

Peer-to-peer file sharing (43.5%)

Web browsing (27.3%)

Streaming media (14.8%)

What about upstream traffic (sending traffic to the network)

The three biggest traffic generators were:

file sharing (75.0%);

tunneling (9.9%); and

Web browsing (9.1%)

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