LilYoda
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Re: I see a lot of use for this
When employees start firing up skype and calling their buddies, they eat up the corporate bandwidth... If it affects other employees that are trying to use the internet for legit business purposes, or it reduces the amount of bandwidth available let's say for the corporate website, then you have a problem.
Billing it to the end user (the employee for example) isn't a solution, because you still have a bandwidth shortage. And you can't upgrade your bandwidth since you don't know if next month your users are going to use skype. If they aren't you end up with more bandwidth than you need (which isn't too bad) and a bill higher than you planned to pay (which is baaaaaaaaad) |
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DonLibes
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| I suspect Skype usage will be pretty smooth compared to non-Skype internet traffic which is much more erratic. 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. |
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oktiri
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Montreal, QC | reply to LilYoda
you sound like the most anal retentive person my eyes had ever the "pleasure" of reading |
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LilYoda
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LilYoda
Feline with squirel personality disorder
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| reply to DonLibes
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?) |
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