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80 Gbps Deep Packet Inspection Hardware Announced
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that Procera Networks is launching a new weapon on the deep packet inspection (DPI) front. At $800,000 these 80 Gbps tanks aren't going to be sitting in everyone's closet, but it could mean that more traffic shaping is on the way. "The PL10000 can handle up to 5 million subscribers and can track 48 million real-time data flows. That's certainly a potent piece of hardware, but larger ISPs will need more. That's why Procera designed the new machines with full support for synchronizing traffic flows where return traffic might be routed to a different PacketLogic machine. The machine receiving the return traffic can make the machine monitoring the outbound traffic aware that it sees the other half of a TCP/IP conversation, for example, giving the devices more accuracy than those which might only have access to one side."
This is also assuming every single packet that an ISP manages goes through a single physical location. So unless Comcast routes every packet to their headquarters at the top of Mt. Doom for inspection before delivery, they're going to need a lot more of these.
It's not that funny. I live in China. We will even have slower traffic now. As it stands forget watching youtube. All I can get is about 30KB/s download/upload on a single connection which is barely enough to listen to internet radio. The good news is that I can have more than one connection open with other countries, but from what I understand no media players or streaming servers have this parallel 30KB/s connection capability to total the necessary 4Mbps/download for watching internet video. That's why China's "Golden Shield" works so well. In order to circumvent it, one must have tools to open multiple connections for the single purpose intended i.e. media player, web serving one large page through multiple data sending connections. Oddly enough if I connect to websites inside China I can get 4Mb/s connections. The world's internet is crippled with equipment like this in my perspective and experience already. I'm grateful I can actually express my opinion about this here. BTW for the last four to five months slashdot has had this quantserve in-your-face job ad when accessing the site. From China, it often slows down the page access and takes sometimes 5 to 10 minutes before I can read the main page. Is this normal?