ISP Shaping Hardware

Tue Oct 21 14:20:55 UTC 2014

We've used a few over the years. We had Packeteer Packetshapers 
originally but they became way too expensive once Bluecoat acquired 
them. $50,000  for an appliance to shape a 1 gig pipe. IIRC,$10,000 per 
year on maintenance at the time. These prices are after discount.We 
looked at the following to replace them.

NetEqualizer
Procera
Exinda

We went with Exinda and I like the solution. These days, I rely on it 
more for reporting and traffic/protocol analysis than for shaping, but 
the shaping does work as advertised. Keep in mind, these solutions can't 
shape on asymmetric traffic since they need to see the entire flow. If 
you have a pair of links, you'll need to cluster a pair of shapers so 
they can share flow information.

I also have tested out the traffic shaping on PFSense VMs and it works. 
I never pushed production traffic through them but my home firewall is a 
PFSense VM and the shaping works there. Not sure how it would handle a 
large number of clients though.

On 10/20/2014 12:55 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Just wondering what/if people are using any shaping hardware/appliances
> these days, and if so, what.
>
> I have a client which has thousands of customers on Satellite and needs to
> restrict some users who are doing a lot.
>
> So I wanted to see what the current popular equipment out there is.
>
> ...Skeeve
>
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