[e2e] Is a non-TCP solution dead?

[Rik Wade]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, John Kristoff wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:33:37 -0700
> Cannara <cannara at attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > John, the various non-TCP flows that have been increasing, and are
> > planned to be used even more in the future, center on media
> > communications, such as audio& video streaming, as well as IP phone,
> > conferencing, etc.  I'm not sure that Inet2 is representative for
> > what's going on in the bulk of the net.
> 
> I've heard that before and I'm not sure I can buy it without seeing some
> additional data showing that to be the case.

>From our (a UK Telco/ISP) Netflow stats running on peering routers, I would 
estimate that we are seeing at most 10% UDP traffic at the present time. This
has grown steadily over time, but I do not have the raw data archives to 
support this assertion.

Around 10% of this is online gaming traffic, 10% DNS, and the rest is made up of
streaming and other/interactive applications.
--
rik