I imagine that those proposals are not from users … I would add "tyrannical" telcos cracking down on their own customers.
-as On 7 Oct 2011, at 14:20, Claudio Lapidus wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martin Millnert <milln...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've seen tyrannical governments use Bluecoat's to crack down on their >> own population(*). >> Was this the sort of use-case you were looking for? :) >> > Ummm, not really... :) > > Actually, we've been faced with proposals to build services based on traffic > classification, like e.g. "access our own webmail and all social networking > sites, but not skype and video" or the capability to do exact metering based > on net traffic time or volume, as well as being able to redirect the > customer to various captive portals using HTTP redirect directly from the > DPI box, and such.