DPI deployment use case

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 19:31:14 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM, PC <paul4004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your use case is not beyond the possibility of full DPI, but a transparent
> proxy box of some nature would be sufficient for most of that.  Usage limits
> on the other hand is often easier done via your AAA accounting/radius
> solution, including policing/shaping/cutting users off/billing for overages.
>
> 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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