Eric Klinker Presentation at Emerging Communication Conference & Awards 2010 America

This Green Revolution Improving the yield of your network investment eComm America San Francisco, CA April 2010 Eric Klinker eric@bittorrent.com @ericklinker

Ding Dong theRevolution This Green Witch is Dead Improving the yield of your network investment eComm America San Francisco, CA April 2010 Eric Klinker eric@bittorrent.com @ericklinker

We’re not in Kansas Anymore Strong Regulator Competitive Marketplace Sustainable only if we meet the challenge of self-regulation 4

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” -Louis Brandeis 5

Discrimination is sometimes hard to justify… 6

Rush hour on the yellow brick road 7

Neutral and Priority can Co-Exist • The road is neutral • And still most cars give way 8

Self regulation, a two way street • Replace TCP for P2P transfers • Design Goals for this new protocol: – Yield capacity to any other application – Keep the bottleneck full – React in 1 RTT • Congestion control approach: – Continuously estimate one-way delay – Separate queuing delay from propagation delay – Target a small value for queuing delay We call this new transport “Micro Transport Protocol” or “µTP” (most commonly just “uTP”) uTP creates a “Scavenger Service” Only idle capacity is utilized 9

Effects of uTP with Target of 100ms UTP TCP Samples 25-50ms Extreme gamers start to notice problem 50-100ms Gaming impact apparent 100-150ms Real-time gaming degraded 200ms VoIP stops working 250ms Games become unplayable Interactive apps seriously degraded 400-500ms Web browsing seriously degraded Latency 100ms 500ms limit 30-50ms?

BitTorrent outreach to other developers Status of uTP uTorrent 2.0 auto-updated to over 70M users uTorrent 2.0 (with uTP) declared stable 1M uTorrent Beta users surpassed Testing begins in uTorrent consumer clients LEDBAT WG formed in IETF, Microsoft and BitTorrent co-chair uTP deployed in 17M DNA clients worldwide BitTorrent buys Plicto, rebrands technology “uTP” Researchers form Plicto Internet 2 Research on QoS 2001 2004 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010

uTP Ambition – Consumers Users don’t need to actively “manage” their clients • Don’t have to set bandwidth limits • Download speeds at parity (perhaps potential for “faster”) No ability for P2P from one user to harm another user • Domestication on the home network • Internet connections less likely to suffer congestion 12

Real Operator Benefits? • Can uTP help? • Networks can run “hotter” • uTP “clips itself” (with revised cap planning) • Networks can focus on non-uTP traffic • Networks can now use • BitTorrent falls back on global peer network capacity previously reserved • VPNs and MPLS • Improved profitability or MRTG reduced capex • User complaints from P2P greatly diminish time uTP traffic All traffic (excl uTP) 13

What’s the Downside? Expense of diagnostic tools to quantify uTP traffic? • Existing SNMP monitoring tools may not be adequate… • Channel utilization no longer an effective proxy for congestion What about people who implement uTP “gaming the system”? • When uTP is not really uTP… 14

The Emerald City • >75M monthly actives • ~100% y/y growth • Aggregate traffic > 1 EB/mo • Est’d peak rate > 4 Tbps Market Saturation Low High 100 10k 1M >10M Active Clients * Share assumes dedicated BitTorrent software, not BitTorrent-capable software like Opera web browsers and P2P clients from Limewire, Xunlei, and others. Probably well over 200m active BitTorrent-capable clients 15

TGAP OZ … 16

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Wish List of Self-Regulating Principles •Ensure any mgmt. practice is explicitly tied to congestion (and be transparent – even about the congestion) •Manage in a protocol agnostic manner •If you meter, meter fairly •Grandma gets a discount •So does my vacation home •Re-think caps  no obv. link to congestion •Putting a kill-switch on every odometer won’t solve rush hour •If you must – at least adjust for “inflation” •Incent network friendly behavior •“nights and weekends”, uTP discounts 18

In the merry old land… • Have a heart – Don’t discriminate • Have a brain – Think about your customers • Have courage – Embrace transparency 19

Thank you 20

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