P2P Remains Dominant Protocol 88
An anonymous reader writes "Last week, a press release was issued by Ellacotya that suggested something quite startling — HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, aka Web traffic) had for the first time in four years overtaken P2P traffic. However a new article from Slyck disputes this, and contends that P2P remains the bandwidth heavyweight."
Nitpicking (Score:5, Informative)
Than means NOTHING (Score:1, Informative)
conflict of interest (Score:3, Informative)
Remember, a press release is almost always marketing; and this form of marketing is about getting people to purcahse solutions for problems that don't quite exist as described. (Microsoft are good at this; Google are first rate.)
Re:If I was designing a P2P network today (Score:3, Informative)
Welcome to layer 5-7 packet inspection on modern firewalls. You're screwed.