Abstract- This paper presented a bandwidth gain analysis on
HTTP and HTTPs traffic in an IP Based network. A framework
model to run the analysis has been setup which caters about 40
thousand concurrent users to the internet that included wired
and wireless access users in a university. All traffic flow to one
access Virtual Local area Network (VLAN) is configured. Five
bandwidth collectors (BC) are setup in the running framework.
Network traffic then is filtered according to the identified
policies that are based on type of applications, protocols and
rules. Two main policies rules are configured called the static
object and customized object rules. Three main filtered content
are also configured which are Integrated uniform resource
locator (URL) and content filtering, instant message and point
to point applications and the third filtered objects is web
category. The objective of the traffic analysis is to observe the
bandwidth gain in the network and manage the bandwidth used
according to the prioritized applications needed. One hour and
one day of internet traffic are collected to analyze the
bandwidth used. Bandwidth gain then is presented for the five
setup bandwidth collector. Results shows that the model
framework helps to reduced the bandwidth utilization mainly
on http and https traffic. An analysis on bandwidth gain and
byte saved are presented in multiple times and percentage.