Unknown 'Superpower' Hosts Dominate Internet Traffic, Study Says

Something extraordinary is happening to the Internet.

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According to one of the largest analyses of traffic yet undertaken, what the world calls "the Internet" is rapidly turning into an entity that exists inside and between a tiny number of hosting superpowers.

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It seems to be mostly about a lot of traffic being carrieded by CDS. Assuming that they are measuring traffic in bytes, it is not surprising that people are moving a lot of their biggest and most often requested files onto a comparatively (we are still talking about 150 of them) small number of CNS