From: Scott Schremmer (scotths@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 00:36:11 PST
This paper examines the Internet traffic leaving and entering the
university of Washington with a goal of determining the use of various
delivery systems. The systems considered are 1- The World Wide Web
2-Content Delivery Networks (Akimi), and 3-Peer-to-peer systems. This was
accomplished by examining the data on the 2 routers connecting the
University of Washington with the outside world.
The use of the traffic from the University is interesting as it
shows the interaction of a large and varied (staff members computers vs.
computers in dorm rooms) network and the Internet. In addition, the young
users at a University are likely to be using the newer technology when
compared with the population as a whole. On the other hand, the data
might be of somewhat limited use due to these differences with the
population as a whole.
Interestingly enough, the University is more of a provider than a
consumer. This is true by a rather large margin. It turns out that Kazaa
connections make up a large percentage of the data exported. This is
probably true due to the low cost very high speed network available to
students. This makes them appealing targets for others to download from.
It appears as though, in addition to their questionable legality these p2p
transfers are also costing the university a large amount in terms of
bandwidth.
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