P2P Darknets to eclipse bandwidth management?

Fri Sep 2 04:36:39 UTC 2005

Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

>Overlooking the point that this kind of smells like a pitch for
>Staselog, I'd be curious to hear of this is an issue on ISP
>bandwidth management radar... or already is...
>  
>
I've been asked this question repeatedly almost as long as we've had the 
traffic engineering / classification capabilities in our product. The 
great change towards encrypted p2p protocols has always been "just 
moments away" for the last three years. In this time we've seen the 
predominant p2p protocol to change from Kazaa to eDonkey, from eDonkey 
to DirectConnect and from there, to BitTorrent. The fraction of traffic 
classified as "other" has been 2-4% of total since we shipped.

Obviously the fact that the world has not changed in the past is no 
proof that it will not in the future. If it does towards increased 
privacy and encryption, I'm all for the change.

Pete