Tuesday, July 21, 2009

P2P causing mobile network congestion as well - InternetNews.com

Mobile data bandwidth usage increased by 30 percent in the second quarter of 2009 and peer-to-peer networks have a lot to do with it. A report by deep packet inspection (DPI) provider Allot also found P2P accounted for congestion in highly utilized nodes.

"We had seen similar report on fixed line bandwidth but nothing specific in the mobile space," Jonathon Gordon, director of marketing for Allot (NASDAQ: ALLT), told InternetNews.com...