Major EU P2P research project hopes to kill traditional TV

Dutch academic Dr. Johan Pouwelse knows BitTorrent well, having spent a year of his life examining its inner workings. Now, as the scientific director of the EU-funded P2P-Next team, Pouwelse and his researchers have been entrusted with €19 million from the EU and various partners, and what they want in return is nothing less than a "4th-generation" peer-to-peer system that will one day be tasked with replacing over-the-air television broadcasts.

in ars technica

The report by Cisco (link below) is short and has some interesting figures - even if you tend to disbelieve in these forecasts, there are some nice figures from 2007 (for example although p2p file sharing traffic grew its percentage decreased from 60% to 51% due to the increase in video traffic and also an increase of web-based file sharing in some regions).

Lots of work for network researchers ahead... ;)

IP traffic to 'double' every two years

Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report from Cisco Systems.. Increased use of video and social networking has created what Cisco calls 'visual networking', which is raising traffic volumes at a compound annual growth rate of 46 per cent.

Cisco's Visual Networking Index (PDF) predicts that visual networking will account for 90 per cent of the traffic coursing through the world's IP networks by 2012.

The upward trend is not only driven by consumer demand for YouTube clips and IPTV, according to the report, as business use of video conferencing will grow at 35 per cent CAGR over the same period.

Cisco reckons that traffic volumes will be measured in exabytes (one billion gigabytes) by 2012 and will reach 552 exabytes by that time.

in iTnews

Cheap wii

If this works as it looks it's a really cool and cheap wii. :)

http://www.camspace.com/

Nokia Morph Concept

Quite cool...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs&eurl

What a Botnet Looks Like

A really nice tool to check the inners of a botnet.

Network Neutrality is Dead

So UK ISPs are furious with BBC's iPlayer and want the broadcasting company to fund their network's upgrade. In the meanwhile in the US Comcast is blocking BitTorrent traffic. Network neutrality ("a load of bollocks", as Virgin Media's CEO puts it) had better days...

It's getting congested out there! :)

Telco IPTV Households Now 14 Million Worldwide, says Parks Associates

The number of households worldwide using telco/IPTV services grew from 4.7 million in 2006 to exceed 14 million in 2007, according to a research whitepaper by Parks Associates. Europe leads with nearly 60 percent of telco/IPTV households worldwide. The analysts define Telco/IPTV as landline-based multichannel and on-demand video services provided by a telephone operator. Free whitepaper.

in Tekrati