Blue Coat Systems Technology Brief Sample

Way Before the Final Four, an Elite-Eight Approach to March Madness.

For Network Administrators, March is truly a month of madness. Beginning March 20, CBS Sports will be streaming all 63 college tournament basketball games -- as well as highlights and recaps, halftime shows, and archived videos. Hoops fans in offices worldwide will create serious network traffic spikes and the extreme possibility of cyber crime. It’s estimated that each streamed game can eat up to 640Kbps of a network. Multiply that by the number of basketball fans in your office (10? 100? More?), and you can see the problem. Some companies are estimating that one-fifth of the capacity for each enterprise Internet gateway will go towards the games.