I don't want to get on yet another salesdroid's radar, so I'm asking the community instead. :-)
We're repeatedly faced with a situation where we purchase more Internet capacity, our employees eventually oversubscribe it, we buy more, lather, rinse, repeat. Currently, we're purchasing 40 Mbps of Internet from our ISP, and the ISP's router guy tells me that his router typically sees about 60 Mbps of traffic actually trying to come to us. (We're mostly an eyeball network.) I'm tempted to look in to purchasing something like a Websense product or other mechanism for, shall we say, reducing the appetite for non-business Internet use during prime business hours. The big question I first want to get a feel for is: Will the cost of the system be made up in terms of reduced need to purchase more Internet capacity? Would anybody mind sharing order-of-magnitude numbers on what you had to pay in order to get something that did a good job at this and how much reduction in Internet usage you think it resulted in? Yes, I realize that you also have to factor in things like lost productivity due to web surfing, security risks that the device could also reduce, etc. That's all fine and good, but it's rather impossible to put those concepts in to hard numbers that I can put on a purchase proposal. I need something that I can sell to Layer 8, which is currently running in "cost paranoid" mode. ---- Jeremy Charles Epic's Computer and Technology Services Division [email protected] Phone: 608-271-9000 Fax: 608-410-5961 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
