Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity

Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring is a necessity. Some of the comments to the interview are more tech-savvy than the interviewee comes across.

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Re:How about selling what you have?

[whoever57]

The problem is, that a megabit still costs $300/mo or $700/mo. There's no way around that.

Actually, it is something less. I recently put a couple of machines into a Colo facility. For $200/month, I get a bandwidth allowance equivalent to a continuous 1MB. Since I am also paying for space, electricity, overhead, etc., one can assume that the cost to the Colo facility of that 1MB for a month is a lot less than $200.