From News.com: Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow networks early this year.
Applications were poky, pipes were full, and the hospital was inching toward buying new, expensive connections to keep up with the demand for bandwidth. But before paying the phone company, Burch agreed to try out network-monitoring software created by a company called Packeteer.
What he found was a surprise: In the first 18 hours that Burch used the software, file-swapping services like Kazaa made more than 1,100 attempts to use the company’s network. Even more surprising were the effects on the applications the company had already noted were a little slow. Burch found that when P2P networks weren’t active, a routine but critical database information swap that had been taking nine hours to perform suddenly was done in an hour and a half. It was a wake-up call, he said.
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