On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:23 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi @Steve, :-) inline below. [...snipped...] P2P and the rest have or are gone stealth, from the old days and now is a big change. Wikileaks and what followed later changed many things. In these times, how would you detect encrypted traffic on port 80 or 8080 without
It's not that long ago, it was just a previous life. Personally I'd still achieve all this open-source but businesses have good reasons to go commercial or buy managed services.
running a proper DPI. And trust me, even the core networks out there that make our networks look like kijiji networks, are facing very complex issues and DPI overheads. Some of these are running into Terabits DPIs that run distributed services.
Which is the reason, IMHO, it's a bad idea to run this at the core.
Managed IP services such as QOS/IDS/NTM is a must have and ISPs, Telcos need to embrace this. No one on edge networks is going to micro-manage a problem such as Torrents which keep changing their patterns when threats increase to their survivability. Even if some taka taka Open source freeware worked, it cannot keep up with the changes as itself becomes a bottleneck. Let ISPs and
Depends who's running it and on what hardware, and I think it's offensive to refer to other people's work as taka taka simply because they release it open source.
Telcos offer secure and managed services, and the clients will not spend much on hardware. Ofcourse, the managed services are a VAS thus offered as such.
Here I'm totally in agreement with you. This is a opportunity for ISPs and other parties to offer managed solutions to meet a business need. Regards, Steve