Re: [Cerowrt-devel] BBR congestion control algorithm for TCP innet-next

[dpreed@reed.com]

Don't want to dwell on this, but Sandvine is not an unbiased source.  And it is apparently the *only* source - and 50% is a LOT.  Even Trump and Clinton don't have 50% of the electorate each. :-)

Does Sandvine have the resources to examine a true sample of all Internet traffic?

Maybe the NSA does.



On Wednesday, September 21, 2016 2:42pm, "Alan Jenkins" <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com> said:

> On 20/09/2016, dpreed@reed.com <dpreed@reed.com> wrote:
>> I constantly see the claim that >50% of transmitted data on the Internet are
>> streaming TV. However, the source seems to be as hard to nail down as the
>> original claim that >50% of Internet traffic was pirated music being sent
>> over bittorrent.
> 
> uh, ibid.
> 
> 50-60% "upstream bandwidth", 2010 and 2008 respectively.
> 
> I'm quite happy to believe the trend, at least. Do you have a
> preferred assessment or even a rebuttal (back of the envelope,
> whatever) for around that time?
> 
> BT for media is a real sweet spot.  Music particularly because people
> _collect_, though I don't know what the timeline would look like for
> music v.s. video.
> 
> Not as if the original figure was being cited as scientific gospel.
> 
> The last paper out of Netflix, they said it works best to stomp out
> the isochronous behaviour and run in FTP mode as much as possible :).
> (Subject to upper limits on quality and application buffers).  Even
> dumb chunk downloading uses TCP; it's not isochronous in the way
> that's usually used to describe RTP etc.
>