On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:44 PM, PC <paul4...@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 ...
