File-sharing traffic continues to dominate service provider networks despite earlier suggestions that Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications would diminish with emerging online trends and industry pressure. This popular technology has become a mass-market application and remains a key driver for broadband adoption in today’s competitive market.
The implication for service providers is clear: file-sharing will continue to consume bandwidth and stress both the access network and Internet transit links. Proactive steps are needed to manage these immense costs and with broader subscriber usage, an intelligent approach to managing P2P traffic that preserves the online experience must be considered
Sandvine’s Intelligent Traffic Management solution offers the widest range of policy management options to significantly reduce transit bandwidth costs and CAPEX spending on access networks. Service providers can adopt new intelligent techniques or more traditional approaches depending on their business environment.
With Sandvine’s subscriber-friendly solutions, service providers can achieve cost savings while increasing customer loyalty.
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