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06:40 15th October 2010
Businesses are increasingly interested in how staff are using the broadband, according to David Palmer, senior product manager for networks and connectivity at Star.
"We find lots of companies find it difficult to get that balance right in terms of what they should allow their employees to do and what they shouldn't. Not many companies want to ban personal use of the internet completely," he said.
"We are seeing more demand from people wanting to know what is going on their networks, and why their network is slow during certain times and what the problem is," he added.
In other IT industry news, small and medium enterprises in the UK are said to be funding their employees' lunchtime surfing habits to the tune of over £23 million per year, according to figures released by Star.
The figures, which are based on actual usage monitored from the managed services provider's data centres serving more than 3,000 UK businesses, highlight that lunchtime is consistently the peak period for bandwidth usage, the company said.
According to Star, on average this lunchtime peak is 18 per cent higher than any other time of the working day.
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