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Telecommunications Packeteer puts a stop to workplace YouTube watching
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 12 December 2006 | |
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"IT managers are waking their organisations up to the fact that there is an explosion in the variety, usage and impact of video-based recreational traffic," said Dr Jim Metzler, principal analyst with Ashton, Metzler & Associates. "Not only is corporate employee productivity being negatively impacted by engaging in leisure activities on company time, but the traffic they generate is sucking away precious bandwidth from critical customer service and transactional applications. The plug-ins being introduced by Packeteer will provide enormous help in measuring and containing the impact of this traffic on business operations." Packeteer argues that, while probes have long been available to differentiate network traffic based on MAC, IP address and port numbers, the growing diversity of WAN applications is rendering this technology obsolete. "There is one inescapable truth in WAN optimisation - in order to intelligently accelerate applications and control network behaviour, it is essential to have visibility into what is running on the network," said Mark Urban, director of product marketing with Packeteer. |
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