By Brad
CNet reports:
For 10 years, peer-to-peer traffic, such as BitTorrent, which includes some video, has been the largest type of traffic on the Internet. But according to Cisco Systems, streaming video will grow at a faster growth rate over the next few years. And starting this year, streaming video will account for more traffic on the Net than peer-to-peer traffic.
Cisco predicts that worldwide traffic will reach 767 exabytes in the next four years.
By Brad
The arrival of the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 wasn’t just a boon for retailers (and the game’s publisher). Microsoft has announced that just after the popular online shooter’s release, the company’s Xbox Live service—which connects players around the world so they can shoot at each other virtually (among other things)—immediately broke its previous record of two million connected users all at once.
That’s a lot of fragging hitting networks all at once.
Speaking of data hitting networks hard, online video giant YouTube has just revealed that starting next week, videos will be available for streaming in 1080p HD. Previously, only a “paltry” 720p was supported. Hopefully, the tubes will be able to keep up with the sudden surge in data.
By IIA
A typical day for most of us includes visiting websites, e-mailing, and watching videos online. With all that online activity, how much data do you use?
Check out two cool new features on the IIA website: The Relative Size of Internet Data an informative video short, and The IIA Broadband Bandwidth Calculator.
How Much Data Do You Use? Find Out Here.
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