http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/27/p2p-does-harm-networks
TELCO BELL'S OWN DATA contradicts its belief that P2P traffic is congesting its networks.
Bell was ordered to release some details about how important it was to throttle P2P traffic and how file sharing was hurting the company.
It did this and has been clearly trying to spin the information to cover the fact its evidence is starting to look a bit weak.
The most damaging evidence is a claim that over two months two to five per cent of their network suffered some sort of congestion. It did not say if the problem was sustained or brief bursts of congestion.
Bell admits that "while these numbers may seem low to the average lay person, they are significant to network traffic engineers such that it is important to consider the number of congested links in the proper context."
If only a single link in the network is congested, end users may still experience slowdowns or dropped connections, it said.
However engineers reading the document
here said that the whole idea is bogus as blockages in one area can be easily re-routed. The congestion Bell claims to be suffering from is nothing and its figures completely dispel the myth that P2P is crushing the internet. µ
