 LilYodaFeline with squirel personality disorderPremium
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Mountains | reply to DonLibes
Re: I see a lot of use for this said by DonLibes:Andway, when half the employees start downloading the latest Windows megapatch or new versions of Linux, watch out. By comparison, VoIP takes very little bandwidth. ¨
Yes and no.
Yes it takes a lot less bandwidth if everyone downloads the patches, etc... However most companies put a transparent proxy between the employees and the net. So windows update things, etc... hopefully get cached and downloaded once only. If the company has a small pipe, a lot of employees and no cache engine, well they deserve to get clobbered with a nightstick 
Anyway, I don't really know why, but I know that a lot of corporations nowadays are trying to block P2P, IM and VoIP apps from inside the company to the outside. My guess is bandwidth usage, cause that's where my job is at, but there could be other things in play (maybe legal implications for the company if an employee shares corpyrighted files?) |
