Dear All,
Recently a number of locations have been reporting poor performance from core applications and as part of our normal monitoring we have identified a large increase in internet traffic over the past few months. We are seeing very large increases in traffic from mobile devices in particular, with a high volume of downloading and streaming media on all devices. In an effort to reduce the impact of the increased usage Group IT will be blocking Streaming Media and Facebook from mobile devices.
We appreciate that Streaming Media sites, such as YouTube, do have valid business uses and as such if you currently do use these resources you will still be able to access these resources from your PC. Once this change has been implemented we will continue to monitor usage and revise the policies accordingly. It must be remembered that the primary purpose of the network is to allow data to travel between our core systems and end users and the excessive streaming we have seen is interfering with this objective.
This change will go into effect on Monday 14th December.
Regards,
Group IT
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