Re: DPI deployment use case

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

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 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 ...