YouTube

Description

This indicates an attempt to access YouTube.
YouTube is a popular free video sharing website that allows users to upload, view, and share video clips. Videos can be rated, and the average rating and the number of times a video has been watched are both published. It uses various technologies like WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and Adobe Flash to display the videos. Videos can be uploaded by individuals and also media corps that have a partnership with YouTube. If a user is not logged in with the Google Account, he/she is only allowed to watch but not comment, or add videos.
Note: To whitelist YouTube, it is recommended to have Google.Ads set to Allow/Monitor. If that is not possible, there will be a short delay before the video loads.

Affected Products

YouTube

Impact

Network bandwidth consumption

Technology

Browser-Based, Network-Protocol, Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud-Based, Mobile-Device

Behavior

• Reasonable
• Cloud

Application Dependencies

• Google.Accounts
• Google_Login
• Google_Login.Personal
• Google_Login.Workspace

Default Ports

• TCP/80
• TCP/443
• UDP/443

References

• http://www.youtube.com