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P2P Traffic Stats Show Interesting Changes in Use

I have noted before the difficulty of giving reliable measurements of p2p traffic; so it is with interest (and a pinch of salt) that we come to new figures again showing a decline in p2p traffic. This time the report is from Arbour Networks and reports a decline of over 71% between 2007 and 2009. That sounds significant. So what does that mean re users behaviour on the internet?

Is P2P Traffic Declining?

Wired recently published an article, based on the analysis of traffic from 110 different ISPs over on nearly 3,000 routers, for a total of 264 exabytes of traffic - and the article concluded that p2p traffic globally was on  the decline:

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