The increasing strain that peer-to-peer (P2P) networking traffic is putting on broadband networks is creating a growing demand for products that can identify and weed out bandwidth-hogging P2P data through the use of deep packet inspection (DPI) technology, according to the latest report published by Light Reading Insider (www.lightreading.com/insider), a paid research service of Light Reading Inc. (www.lightreading.com).
“Deep Packet Inspection: Taming the P2P Traffic Beast” focuses exclusively on products that specifically provide or use real-time data and analysis of packet contents for stateful protocol identification, flow monitoring, application monitoring, session monitoring, policy enforcement, use and usage control, quality of service, security, traffic management, and similar functions. The 28-page report provides an overview of P2P’s impact on data networks and details how DPI can be deployed to help minimize those effects.
The report presents a detailed comparison of product features and functions from key DPI vendors, including Allot Communications, Caspian Networks, Cisco Systems, Ellacoya Networks, Narus, and Sandvine. It also lists known customer wins for the vendors in this sector and catalogs the various technology partnerships each vendor has struck with suppliers of related hardware and software.
Worldwide, network operators spent $96.8 million on DPI in 2005, but the DPI sector is poised to grow by more than 75% this year, to about $170 million, and top $586 million in 2010, estimates James Crawshaw, Research Analyst for Light Reading Insider and author of the report.
Agreed. It’s my money and if I don’t get BANG for my buck then I’ll go back to something much cheaper and still capable of getting me here (and there).
Again if they start to tick off customers they have only THEIR jobs to lose. So they had better tread carefully when it comes to ISPs ticking off customers by trying to limit what they can do. DRM is bad enough DRM in the form of an ISP I pay monthly for? NO THNKS! I would go back to dial up before I would let that happen!