Minimizing Abuse Of Internet Resources
World Trends
Since business, government and education institutions first provided internet services as part of daily operational 'life?some/all of the people for whom these facilities were provided have used them for non-work related (or study in the case of students) purposes. Most organisations that deploy internet services make some attempts at reducing, or eliminating, non-work related use of these expensive resources. Apart from the cost of any additional downloads caused by this activity the loss in working/study time is quite considerable.
There have been many studies of the cost of these activities and, more recently, the additional cost of preventing this abuse of resources. There are several well regarded studies, principally carried out in US corporate and University environments, that show that up to 70% of all traffic carried on corporate networks is actually unrelated to the business activities of those companies providing the resources.
Preventing Abuse Of Internet Resources By In House Processes
Any company, government department or educational institution can put in place processes on its own routers that will either minimise or eliminate the abuse of internet facilities by employees or students. These processes vary in effectiveness almost linearly, with the cost of the processes. Whatever the cost may be in any individual organisation the one certain aspect is that prevention of this abuse certainly isn’t free. In almost every case it may also not be particularly effective and may, in some cases, turn out to be counter productive.
Preventing Abuse Of Internet Resources By An Exetel Offering
Exetel can provide any user of its corporate DSL services with the ability to eliminate any kind of (protocol type) traffic from being used on its internet connection at no cost to the company and with no cost of internal personnel or routing resources.
Exetel can provide, as a non-chargeable service, use of its Allot 2520 deep packet analyzer to eliminate any traffic protocol type from being carried across the customer’s internet links. There is no restriction on the number of protocols that can be 'banned?and the protocols can be selected and de-selected by the customer at any time.
Details of the Allot 2520 can be found here: http://www.allot.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=343&Itemid=157
The most common examples of traffic types a commercial, government or educational organisation might wish to eliminate being carried over its networks are:
- Messaging services such as MSN
- Games playing
- File downloading via different P2P protocols
However, the protocols can be specified individually and can be changed at any time. The use of this service can not only reduce the cost of the internet service but can regain both lost working hours and increase productivity.
An example of the analysis that Exetel can provide can be found here.
Further Information On Protocol Management
If you would like more details on how protocol management could be implemented for your organisation please:
Phone: (02) 9927 1040
OR
Email: corporatesales@exetel.com.au
