Study says file sharing now a true multi-application reality.
A new study by Sandvine Incorporated, presented October 14, shows that file sharing (P2P) is a multi-application reality. The study debunks the presumed dominance of FastTrack (KaZaA, iMesh and Grokster) across the globe.
In North America, Sandvine's study shows that FastTrack-based applications generate more than 76% of all P2P traffic. The second most popular P2P network is WinMX, with 15%. Coming in third and forth is Gnutella with 8% and eDonkey2000 with less than 1%.
In Europe, FastTrack is often behind newer applications like eDonkey. In Germany, eDonkey accounts for more than 52% of file sharing traffic against 44% for FastTrack. WinMX takes a bit over 3% in Germany. In Great Britain, FastTrack leads with 59 percent of all traffic, before WinMX and eDonkey, with 20 percent of the P2P activity each.
