Sunday, December 26, 2010

The most important applications of the Internet

Business Week just published a list of the most important applications (most used) of the web in 2010.

Application     Traffic share
Category

1-Data                    28.1%
2-Online video        26.2%
3-P2P File sharing   24.9%
4-Other file sharing   18.7%
5-Voice and video     1.7%
communications
6-PC Gaming            0.7%
7-E-mail and Instant   0.3%
Messaging
8-Gaming Consoles    0.2%

It appears that streaming video (both TV and movies) has surpassed peer-to-peer sharing (which are mostly pirated files), and will become the largest volume of video traffic on the Web, according to Cisco Systems.

Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
louis@infocomintelligence.com

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