U P DAT E
CONVERGENCE UPDATE
Peer GPON,
pressure bonded
Peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet traf- DSL
fic, despite having grown at a
torrid pace for years, will grow triple-play
almost 400% over the next 5
years, according to MultiMedia specs
Intelligence (MMI). Growing
from a level of 1.6 Petabytes In November the Broadband
of Internet traffic per month in Forum, formerly the DSL
2007, P2P Internet traffic will Forum, unveiled the latest
grow to almost 8 Petabytes per edition of its BroadbandSuite™
month by 2012. MultiMedia Intelligence’s new Channel’, analyses the P2P Release Plan at this year’s Telco
research also found: market in terms of worldwide TV event. BroadbandSuite
MMI reckons P2P data · P2P networking is broadband penetration, 3.0 provides specifications
currently represents 44.0% of dominated by music consumer consumption of data, for triple-play delivered via
all consumer traffic over the in terms of the number audio and video files and its GPON and bonded DSL over a
Internet and 33.6% in North of files transferred. associated revenue. Forecasts QoS-enabled Ethernet architec-
America. Although the base of However, in terms of are provided on an annual or ture, and remote management
legitimate P2P traffic is starting bandwidth, growth of per monthly average (for exam- beyond the gateway to address
quite small, legitimate P2P traf- video is explosive. This ple, Petabytes/month) from video and storage devices.
fic is expected to grow 10 times growth is largely attribut- 2006 through 2012. Forecasts
as fast as illicit P2P traffic. able to a transition to include: worldwide and BroadbandSuite 2.0, released in
Content owners increasingly higher quality video and regional broadband penetra- 2007, provided a roadmap for
see P2P as a cost effective way growing video demand in tion; worldwide consumer triple-play access via ADSL2+,
to distribute digital entertain- less developed markets Internet data volume; P2P but over the past 12 months, the
ment services and content. · as the number legitimate traffic as measured by quantity Broadband Forum says it has
P2P services grow, P2P is of bits transferred, by content responded to an industry need
“The awareness of P2P entering a second-genera- type and by number monthly for the ability to deliver triple-
networking grew from the tion evolution. Such next P2P files; total media P2P play services, such as IPTV,
illicit 'sharing' of music files, generation P2P services files by content type, monthly over a variety of different
much to the chagrin of content leverage traffic steering data volume by content type access technologies.
holders,” according to Frank or management and and legal media by content
Dickson, chief research include P4P, P2P caching type; ‘value’ of purchased The key capabilities of
officer with MultiMedia and hybrid solutions, and pirated content for music BroadbandSuite 3.0 include
Intelligence. “Despite the such as CDN/pseudo tracks, short-form P2P video triple-play augmented via
prevailing perceptions of P2P CDN services with P2P content, episodic P2P video GPON and bonded DSL over a
as synonymous with content content and long-form P2P QoS-enabled Ethernet architec-
piracy, P2P is emerging as The research, P2P Networking: video content; and apportioned ture; full support for multicast
viable means of distributing ‘Content’s ‘Bad Boy’ Becomes US ISP CapEx and OpEx to IPTV streaming; and
legitimate content.” Tomorrow's Distribution resulting from P2P. integrated remote management
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