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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Systems/Enterprise:
NEW P2P MANAGEMENT TECH SAVING
SERVICE PROVIDERS MILLIONS
Just-released customer metrics from Sandvine show that Peer-To-Peer (P2P)
Policy Management is dramatically reducing the amount of expensive bandwidth
consumed by file-sharing applications.
P2P programs like KaZaA and Morpheus consume as much as 70% of available
bandwidth on broadband networks. Yet service providers who have deployed
Sandvine technology report that they are improving bandwidth utilisation to
such an extent, file sharing has almost ceased to be a significant drag on
network costs.
For example, one large MSO estimates Sandvine's approach will save it in
excess of $5 million dollars this year. P2P upload traffic was consuming
approximately 150 out of 160 MB of the MSO's provisioned upload bandwidth -- a
full 94% of available upstream capacity. Once Sandvine Peer-To-Peer Policy
Management was enabled, bandwidth utilisation by P2P traffic fell abruptly --
and sharply -- without impacting peer-to-peer networking by subscribers.
"This effect was achieved without invoking the CAPEX, legal or QoS issues
that
node splitting, content caching and traffic shaping solutions, respectively,
impose on service providers," said Tom Donnelly, co-founder and VP, marketing
and sales of Sandvine. "Sandvine was able to deliver these impressive cost
benefits and efficiencies without degrading the online experience for the
MSO's subscribers."
To learn more, download Sandvine's just-released "P2P Case Study" at
www.sandvine.co.uk/solutions/download_center.asp.
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