Re: Policy around IP Phones, Skype, etc.

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

 Sadler, Connie ventured to comment, at 10/25/06 12:55 PM:
> Does anyone have thoughts - or an actual policy - regarding the use of
> IP Phones or software such as Skype, etc. that they are willing to share?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSLC

We had to make a policy -- our Language department is using Skype with classes
of ESL students around the globe. It can be an interesting and useful tool.

http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/05dec/language.html

We appear to have avoided many of the downsides of Skype by careful use of our
Packetshaper to limit the bandwidth and numbers of connections a Skype user
can create and consume. That seems to have reduced the tendency for our campus
to host supernodes.

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