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Re: DPI deployment use case

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Oct 7 15:32:14 2011

In-Reply-To: <CAJAdsDkqUR9rnZz31w9Ya7WyhMfOOCNdn7oMWOh6kObbszrN-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:31:14 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: PC <paul4004@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM, PC <paul4004@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your use case is not beyond the possibility of full DPI, but a transparen=
t
> proxy box of some nature would be sufficient for most of that. =A0Usage l=
imits
> on the other hand is often easier done via your AAA accounting/radius
> solution, including policing/shaping/cutting users off/billing for overag=
es.
>
> Ohh, and these boxes often make pretty pictures, graphs, and reports.

one wonders at the cost of these sorts of solutions relative to just
link upgrades as well... for some deployments +1gbps capable boxes in
redundant configs are far more expensive as compared with just
upgrading 1gbps -> 10gbps ...


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