Google's Youtube provides more of the internet traffic than any other source and accounts for more than 98% off Google's internet traffic according to a recent CNet article (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10132086-93.html).
In the month of November alone, over 5.1 billion videos were watched from Youtube. That should be making any system or network administrator wonder how much of it is going across their enterprise network.
If you allow videos on your corporate network, that's a sure reason to implement a proxy if you haven't already done so. Smart proxies should be able to implement a policy to cache Youtube type videos, so when a popular video comes out, and everyone in the office is trying to download it, you don't end up downloading multiple copies across your internet link. If you already have a proxy, you should investigate how to implement this type of policy on your existing proxy, perhaps before the upcoming Presidential Inauguration?
Friday, January 9, 2009
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