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While soccer fans across the globe have been captivated with the excitement of the World Cup during the last month, vendors of DPI-based technologies have been casting their focus there as well. I recently came across a number of different vendor reports and musings (from Arbor, Allot, and Sandvine) about the impact of World Cup [...]

Categories: DPI, Net Neutrality
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I’ve heard for some time now that most if not all broadband ISPs in the UK have implemented some sort of congestion management on their networks (beyond what TCP itself provides) and that in many cases these management policies are targeting specific application types. But in my search for a comprehensive resource documenting these policies, [...]

Categories: DPI
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There has been some debate about just how “deep” the inspection of packets needs to be for the inspection to qualify as DPI. The strictest conception of “deep” draws a line between IP addresses and all other data in the packet, claiming that the use of any data other than the destination IP address constitutes [...]

Categories: DPI