June 21, 2007
YouTube spawns 10% of all net traffic
YouTube has been credited with changing the complexion of data on the internet. The popularity of the video sharing site means that HTTP eats up more bandwidth than any other data transfer protocol. PCPro reports.
For more than four years, peer-to-peer (p2p) applications swapping music and latterly movie files have overwhelmingly consumed the largest percentage of bandwidth, according to broadband technology firm Ellacoya Network.
As a result of streaming audio and video, however, HTTP accounts for approximately 46% of all traffic on the network while just 37% is p2p. Newsgroups (9%), non-HTTP video streaming (3%), gaming (2%) and VoIP (1%) are the next most widely used applications.
Just one website - YouTube - generates a fifth of all HTTP traffic, nearly 10% of all traffic on the Internet.
Related: - Warnings of 'internet overload'
The Permanent Link to this page is: http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2007/06/016351.htm
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)