Posts Tagged ‘sandvine’

‘Shocking’ 61% of all Upstream Internet Traffic is P2P

Sandvine, best known for manufacturing the hardware that slowed down BitTorrent users on Comcast, has released an Internet traffic trends report today. The report shows that, on average, P2P traffic is responsible for more than half of the upstream traffic, but mostly the report seems an attempt to sell their traffic shaping products.

BitTorrent Throttling Company Sandvine Sees Sales Down 88%

Sandvine, manufacturers of BitTorrent throttling technology has seen its first quarter sales drop 88% in a year. After achieving 42,000% growth in 5 years, the company – best known for providing the technology which put Comcast into the spotlight recently – has seen its value plummet 42% in a single day.