NewNet 66 offers free student email to schools.

School districts wishing to offer email accounts to their students may do so without any additional cost. This includes a sub-domain for the student accounts so that student email may controlled differently than staff email. More information is available in this PDF.

The new school year has started and Internet traffic is off to a running start with many new services being offered to K12 school districts. NewNet 66 is seeing bandwidth consumption at all time highs for many districts and many new applications are traversing our network. We have put together a one week report in PDF format listing all of the applications seen from 8-21 to 8-28 2010. During this seven day period we saw 387 different applications moving to and from the Internet with some applications consuming valuable Internet bandwidth. The report is located here. 20k PDF

Application of the Week. Ooyala (view history)

Each week NewNet 66 will post an application that we have seen traversing our network for the last 7 days. Some of these applications consume valuable bandwidth and others may pose significant network security risks to the school environment. Learning about applications is significant in understanding the evolving use of the Internet.

Week of 8-30-10 Ooyala.

Description: Ooyala is a video technology company committed to providing publishers, advertisers, and content owners with syndication and monetization solutions for high quality video.

Bandwidth Consumed Last 7 days: 3.5 Gig (all NewNet 66 schools combined)
Number of Sessions: 20,975
Standard Ports: tcp/dynamic
Capable of File Transfer: No
Used by Malware: No
Excessive Bandwidth Use: Yes
Evasive: Yes
Risk Level: 3 (based on 1-5 with 5 being the most risk)
Has Known Vulnerabilities: Yes
Category: Media
Technology: Browser-Based

Additional information on Ooyala.

NewNet 66 comments: Ooyala is a web service designed for people and companies to publish high quality video content instantly.

This data is taken from the NewNet 66 PaloAlto Next Generation firewall.