However, ipoque's data contradicts figures released by Ellacoya Networks, a company that makes deep packet inspection gear. Ellacoya said in June that P2P is only responsible for 37% of all Internet traffic, compared with 46% for all HTTP traffic. Interestingly, one third of the HTTP traffic was from video sharing sites like YouTube.
Whichever figures are more accurate, both illustrate the increasingly strong demand for video content on the Internet, which has been recognized as a serious problem by Internet service providers around the world, forcing them to look into traffic shaping methods.
Source:
Ars Technica