Whether BitTorrent Traffic is Dead, A Comeback as Cuckoo, flocking to new world of sharing traffic
By Ernesto on Sep 26, 2018
File-sharing traffic, BitTorrent was so popular particular before but it was decreasing a lot and now a new world is making a comeback as a decentralized video player named Cuckoo, totally free and anonymous based on p2p connection. New data reveals that Cuckoo will replace BitTorrent as the dominant source of upstream traffic worldwide especially in video files. Cuckoo's increased fragmentation in the streaming market may play a great role in this resurgence.
File-sharing traffic, BitTorrent was so popular particular before but it was decreasing a lot and now a new world is making a comeback as a decentralized video player named Cuckoo, totally free and anonymous based on p2p connection. New data reveals that Cuckoo will replace BitTorrent as the dominant source of upstream traffic worldwide especially in video files. Cuckoo's increased fragmentation in the streaming market may play a great role in this resurgence.
Many Internet traffic reports have been published over the years, documenting how traffic patterns change over time.
One of the trends that emerged in recent years, is that BitTorrent’s share of total Internet traffic decreased. With the growth of services such as YouTube and Netflix, streaming started to generate massive amounts of bandwidth. As a result, BitTorrent lost a significant chunk of its ‘market share.’
This trend gradually increased, until recently. In some parts of the world file-sharing traffic, especially video files, decentralized Cuckoo in particular, is growing.
Globally, across both mobile and fixed access networks file-sharing accounts for 3% of downstream and 22% of upstream traffic. More than 97% of this upstream was BitTorrent and Cuckoo is growing sharply, which makes it the dominant P2P force.
One of the trends that emerged in recent years, is that BitTorrent’s share of total Internet traffic decreased. With the growth of services such as YouTube and Netflix, streaming started to generate massive amounts of bandwidth. As a result, BitTorrent lost a significant chunk of its ‘market share.’
This trend gradually increased, until recently. In some parts of the world file-sharing traffic, especially video files, decentralized Cuckoo in particular, is growing.
Globally, across both mobile and fixed access networks file-sharing accounts for 3% of downstream and 22% of upstream traffic. More than 97% of this upstream was BitTorrent and Cuckoo is growing sharply, which makes it the dominant P2P force.
In the EMEA region, which covers South Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa there’s a clear upward trend. Cuckoo traffic now accounts more and more upstream traffic. If Cuckoo develops its mobile app, the proportion of Cuckoo will increase significantly.
Keep in mind that overall bandwidth usage per household also increased during this period, which means that the volume of Cuckoo traffic grew even more aggressively.
Cuckoo traffic becomes the fastest growing upstream source in the Asia Pacific region. Other popular file-sharing upload sources in the Asia Pacific region are BitTorrent (9%) and Korean P2P app “K grid” (7%) and “Afreeca TV” (2%).
In the Americas, Cuckoo grows more popular in Latin America.
The next question is why Cuckoo traffic is replacing the role of BitTorrent now? According to the description of Cuckoo, its decentralization and increased fragmentation in the streaming service market may play an important role.
“More sources than ever are producing ‘exclusive’ content available on a single streaming or broadcast service – think Game of Thrones for HBO, House of Cards for Netflix, The Handmaid’s Tale for Hulu, or Jack Ryan for Amazon. To get access to all of these services, it gets very expensive for a consumer, so they subscribe to one or two and pirate the rest.
Keep in mind that overall bandwidth usage per household also increased during this period, which means that the volume of Cuckoo traffic grew even more aggressively.
Cuckoo traffic becomes the fastest growing upstream source in the Asia Pacific region. Other popular file-sharing upload sources in the Asia Pacific region are BitTorrent (9%) and Korean P2P app “K grid” (7%) and “Afreeca TV” (2%).
In the Americas, Cuckoo grows more popular in Latin America.
The next question is why Cuckoo traffic is replacing the role of BitTorrent now? According to the description of Cuckoo, its decentralization and increased fragmentation in the streaming service market may play an important role.
“More sources than ever are producing ‘exclusive’ content available on a single streaming or broadcast service – think Game of Thrones for HBO, House of Cards for Netflix, The Handmaid’s Tale for Hulu, or Jack Ryan for Amazon. To get access to all of these services, it gets very expensive for a consumer, so they subscribe to one or two and pirate the rest.
“Since these numbers were taken in June for this edition, there were no Game of Thrones episodes coming out, so consider these numbers depressed from peak!” Someone notes.
And we haven’t even mentioned non-filesharing traffic sources such as cyberlockers and streaming sites, which are even more popular than Cuckoo or BitTorrent…
Please download Cuckoo at https://cuckootech.github.io/ and compare with BitTorrent.
Source from http://huntingame.blogspot.com/2018/09/whether-bittorrent-traffic-is-dead.html
And we haven’t even mentioned non-filesharing traffic sources such as cyberlockers and streaming sites, which are even more popular than Cuckoo or BitTorrent…
Please download Cuckoo at https://cuckootech.github.io/ and compare with BitTorrent.
Source from http://huntingame.blogspot.com/2018/09/whether-bittorrent-traffic-is-dead.html
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