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YouTube and Facebook eating company bandwidth
Popular apps are bandwidth hogs, finds survey.
By John E. Dunn | Techworld | Published: 13:47 GMT, 30 November 09
What are enterprise networks used for? According to a new traffic analysis the answer is, increasingly, to let employees spend work time visiting websites such as YouTube and Facebook.
Judging by figures uncovered by managed network provider Network Box between July and November of 2009, this is no sensational interpretation. Surveying 19 billion URLs visited by 30,000 end users from among the company's customer base, the top application turned out to be YouTube, which consumed an astounding 7.8 percent of all available bandwidth.
Behind this came Facebook with 4.4 percent, Yimg (Yahoo's image search) at 2.8 percent, and Google on 2.7 percent. Uncomfortably perhaps, Microsoft updates alone managed to eat 3.8 percent of bandwidth. [More]
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