Analysis of the impact of early fiber access deployment on residential Internet traffic

Author

Vu-Brugier, Guillaume

Author_Institution

Orange Labs., Lannion, France

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We report in this paper traffic measurements from Orange´s commercial networks connecting ADSL and FTTH clients. Packet-level traces are used to evaluate the impact of the new fiber access network on traffic characteristics. We notably show that with the current level of deployment, only a minority of clients and flows really take advantage of the availability of high capacity and we observe the emergence of flows with a very high rate. Special attention is paid to traffic generated by peer-to-peer applications: the analysis points out that p2p protocols do not exploit locality and high transmission capacities.

Keywords

Internet; digital subscriber lines; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; telecommunication traffic; ADSL client; FTTH client; Orange commercial network; early fiber access deployment; fiber access network; fibre-to-the-home access network; p2p protocol; packet-level traces; peer-to-peer application; residential Internet traffic; traffic characteristics; traffic measurement; Availability; Bit rate; Europe; IP networks; Internet; Joining processes; Optical fiber subscriber loops; Peer to peer computing; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; ADSL; FTTH; Flow; Traffic characterization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teletraffic Congress, 2009. ITC 21 2009. 21st International

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4744-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-2-912328-54-0

Type

conf

Filename

5300266