Wall Street Journal: The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching

The Wall Street Journal published an article on March 4, 2008, entitled, "The New Workplace Rules: No Video-Watching".

This article shows a great new security use for proxies. Using a proxy gives the network or security administrator the ability to block video for certain users or groups or everyone in the company. Some proxies even give admins the flexibility to define time frames on when an end-user can watch video (perhaps no video use from 9 to 5, during working hours).

Blue Coat Systems, even has a proxy that can cache and split video streams to help off-load the bandwidth requirements video has on the internet link. That way when the latest new Youtube video goes around the office, it's only downloaded once from the internet, and all subsequent views are from the cache on the proxy.