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File-Sharing Traffic Predicted to Double By 2015

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Forecasts from Cisco’s Visual Networking Index reveal that global file-sharing traffic is predicted to grow to nearly 14 exabytes per month by 2015. According to the predictions most growth will occur in Latin America, and both Central and Eastern Europe. Least growth is expected in Western Europe.

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Cisco Expects P2P Traffic to Double by 2014

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Forecasts from Cisco’s Visual Networking Index reveal that P2P traffic is predicted to grow to more than 7 Petabytes per month by 2014. This is more than double the amount of data P2P traffic generated in 2009. The majority of the bandwidth consumption will be generated by BitTorrent, which is the dominant file-sharing protocol today.

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