Don't want to dwell on this, but Sandvine is not an unbiased source. And it is apparently the *only* source - and 50% is a LOT. Even Trump and Clinton don't have 50% of the electorate each. :-)
Does Sandvine have the resources to examine a true sample of all Internet traffic? Maybe the NSA does. On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:42pm, "Alan Jenkins" <alan.christopher.jenk...@gmail.com> said: > On 20/09/2016, dpr...@reed.com <dpr...@reed.com> wrote: >> I constantly see the claim that >50% of transmitted data on the Internet are >> streaming TV. However, the source seems to be as hard to nail down as the >> original claim that >50% of Internet traffic was pirated music being sent >> over bittorrent. > > uh, ibid. > > 50-60% "upstream bandwidth", 2010 and 2008 respectively. > > I'm quite happy to believe the trend, at least. Do you have a > preferred assessment or even a rebuttal (back of the envelope, > whatever) for around that time? > > BT for media is a real sweet spot. Music particularly because people > _collect_, though I don't know what the timeline would look like for > music v.s. video. > > Not as if the original figure was being cited as scientific gospel. > > The last paper out of Netflix, they said it works best to stomp out > the isochronous behaviour and run in FTP mode as much as possible :). > (Subject to upper limits on quality and application buffers). Even > dumb chunk downloading uses TCP; it's not isochronous in the way > that's usually used to describe RTP etc. > _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
