-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quoth Dan Foster [10/13/2011 09:01 PM] : > Hot Diggety! Jeremy Charles was rumored to have written: >> I’ve been directed to figure out how to decrease the amount of >> Internet capacity that is being used by employees to do things that >> are not work-related. The examples I’ve been given are Netflix and >> other streaming media. > >> For those of you who have had to carry out (or at least attempt to >> carry out) similar direction, what techniques/products have you found >> to be successful or not-so-successful? > > I've seen various hardware-based appliances in use though I couldn't > remember particular names now. The better ones can produce reports that > provides graphs and breakdowns (plus numbers) helping you determine what > to focus on.
Hi, Jeremy - For interesting commercial solutions, check out these appliances: BlueCoat PacketShaper (formerly Packeteer before acquisition) : http://www.bluecoat.com/products/packetshaper Palo Alto firewalls (definitely *not* your father's packet-filter) : http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/index.html Cheers, - --Trey ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ Trey Darley - Brussels mobile: +32/494.766.080 twitter: @treyka ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? ++----------------------------------------------------------------------------++ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6XOyAACgkQQXaSM49tivDv5ACeJEgbT7o2L//EVI3lzLMjWtio D4wAn3U2CN2HPLsOymsRKN9QPZ8DyCS2 =fyAS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
