On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Jeremy Charles wrote: > 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?
It sounds like you're trying to solve a social problem with technology. > 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. I'd suggest a variation on what folk have pointed at thus far. Run a proxy for a while, to gather stats on usage -- at that point you should be able to say fairly easily "at least X percent of the network traffic is going to the following non-work related sites -- and that means that out of the $Y we pay per month for networking, $XX is paying for this non-essential traffic". That'll give you cost numbers to start from, as well as an idea about how much of an issue you've got... since it's not clear from your posting how you've come to the conclusion that your traffic increases are purely due to inappropriate usage... cheers! ========================================================================== "A cat spends her life conflicted between a deep, passionate and profound desire for fish and an equally deep, passionate and profound desire to avoid getting wet. This is the defining metaphor of my life right now." _______________________________________________ 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/
