While global Internet data traffic is growing steadily year after year, the nature and composition of data packets has changed dramatically in recent decades, largely due to newly released services (cloud services, SVOD platforms, social platforms) and new types of devices. (Smartphones, tablets, etc.) Thanks.
Nothing illustrates this change better than the fact that twenty years ago, at the dawn of the great “Second Web” era, 35% of the world's Internet traffic was brought together by users of a single platform, the largest of all torrents, BitTorrent. Today, the previous dominance of file sharers has practically completely evaporated.
the torrentfreak Based on its collection, BitTorrent still accounted for a third of all reverse (uploaded) traffic on the Internet eleven years ago, in 2013, but was barely ten percent two years ago.
This phenomenon is primarily due to the emergence of video streaming services, and specifically to the fact that as a result, existing successful films and series become available to hundreds of millions of users – moreover, fully subtitled and in good quality.
The publication cited by Canadian research firm Sandvine was published recently Global reportAccordingly, BitTorrent no longer tops any list according to any traffic metric.
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Based on the survey, classified based on the amount of data downloaded, video (streaming) platforms are now clearly at the top, followed by various social media platforms, while in the case of reverse traffic, due to the nature of p2p file sharing, it remains relevant to Only to some extent in its core area, which is wired infrastructure.
At the same time, many point out that in the ranked list based on the average amount of data, cloud service providers and communication applications are at the top, while on mobile, users usually generate the largest amount of data traffic using social platforms and communication applications.
p2p file sharing, in addition to the large amount of uploaded data, has always been characterized by the fact that a relatively small percentage of users (Internet users) were responsible for this data distribution – this has not changed today, nor has the fact that some of them exchange data via VPN , but none of the survey's conclusions were affected by this: the era in which global p2p file sharing dominated Internet traffic appears to be coming to an end.
