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alt="" width="90" height="112">Within the last
month, a couple of reports have been released that
contain some helpful information about Internet
bandwidth. Palo Alto Networks' ninth <em><a
href="http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/aur/">Application
Usage and Risk Report</a></em> analyzed over
2,000 network traffic assessments to determine
which applications in business networks were using
the most bandwidth. And the FCC just published
their <em><a
href="http://www.fcc.gov/measuring-broadband-america/2012/july">Report
on Consumer Wireline Broadband Performance in
the U.S.</a></em> tracking the performance of
various commercial Internet service providers.
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totally stun you, but they may confirm some things
that you already suspected about your bandwidth.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.securityweek.com/p2p-traffic-and-streaming-media-are-killing-enterprise-bandwidth-report">P2P
traffic and streaming media are killing
enterprise bandwidth, report</a>
(SecurityWeek/Steve Ragan) "Between November
2011 and May 2012, P2P traffic on the networks
used for the study jumped 700% - representing
14% of the overall traffic during the reporting
period. Moreover, streaming media applications
such as Netflix and YouTube, accounted for a
300% jump when compared to the last Palo Alto
study."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/06/p2p-and-streaming-video-gobble-up-increasing-corporate-bandwidth.php">P2P
and streaming video gobble up increasing
corporate bandwidth</a> (ReadWriteWeb/David
Strom) "At least one browser-based file-sharing
application was detected on 89% of the
participating organizations' networks, and an
average of 13 different file-sharing apps were
found on each customer's network. What is even
more sobering is that the takedown of popular
file-sharing site MegaUpload in January 2012
didn't really put a dent in this kind of
traffic."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/shocker-fcc-finds-isps-closer-to-giving-consumers-what-they-pay-for/">Shocker:
FCC finds ISPs closer to giving consumers what
they pay for</a> (Digital Trends/Geoff Duncan)
"This year, the FCC finds that major ISPs are
getting even closer to providing customers with
the services they're advertising - and some
providers and technologies regularly <em>exceed</em>
advertised performance in some tiers. However,
the FCC finds there's still considerable
variation in broadband service..."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/how-fast-is-your-isp-a-new-fcc-report-tells-all/">How
fast is your ISP? A new report tells all</a>
(GigaOM/Stacey Higginbotham) "The report also
takes a look at data consumption and when people
consume it. Generally during the 8-10PM block is
when the FCC saw providers fall below their
advertised speeds, presumably as their networks
became more congested. Some ISPs have more even
speeds than others, indicating that they may
have less reliable ways of handling congestion."</li>
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tool fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Palo Alto
Networks has posted a nifty visual tool that
examines their raw data at <a
href="http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-report-visualization">http://www.paloaltonetworks.com/app-usage-risk-report-visualization</a>.
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