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Packet sniffers work by interrupting and logging network traffic that they can 'see' via the

wired or wireless network interface that the packet sniffing software has right of entry to on

its host computer. Open source and freeware sniffer software applications are frequently the

tools of option for packet sniffing tasks. One of the more popular open source offerings is:

Wire shark (previously known as Ethereal). Which is used more often to view the traffic on

home network. One of the most often cited reasons for the global outburst in bandwidth

demand is the major rise in video traffic, and specially video traffic. So how much bandwidth

does an video consumes it depends on following parameters:

Parameter 1: Color depth :This is also referred to as bits-per-pixel or bpp, and describe

how many colors can be signified by each pixel in the video.  For example, a color depth of

1-bit is indistinct, either black or white, while 8-bits can generate 256 colors. Most expert

broadcast cameras have a color depth of 24–bits or more per pixel, which is well thought-out

“Truecolor” with over 16 million color variations.  However, some expert cameras use a

method called "chroma subsampling" to decrease the number of bits needed (and thus the

bandwidth required) to attain a full spectrum of color. 

Parameter 2: Video resolution: This is calculated by the number of pixels broad by the

number of pixels high of a video stream.  Video is usually defined as containing a resolution

of at least 1280x720.

  Parameter 3: Frame rate: This is the quantity of “still images” or frames per second (fps)

send as element of the video stream. Nevertheless, you too need to report for possible

"interlacing" of the video, which is a way of sending only half of the video frame at a time,

either the odd rows or the even rows of the image.  This in actual fact reduces the quantity of

"full" frames sent per second by partially, and the same cuts the bandwidth requirement in

half.