Of course, it speaks volumes that Microsoft is sufficiently concerned about the Apple/HP agreement that they bother to fire up the FUD Cannon(tm) so soon. Seems to me that having this agreement come out on the heels of the IBM desktop migration announcement might be turning up the heat in Redmond...
There's a difference between monitoring bandwidth utilization and inspecting the traffic which comprises that utilization. Bandwidth monitoring typically comes down to SNMP statistics such as # of packets/MB/GB transferred, perhaps delving into the protocol headers to see which services are being used, etc. Content inspection, on the other hand, would entail examining the payload.
I would fully expect an ISP to monitor their bandwidth and other metrics of their network service - there's no other real way to determine if everything is operating properly, if its necessary to scale the infrastructure, if there is a security event, etc.
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Of course, it speaks volumes that Microsoft is sufficiently concerned about the Apple/HP agreement that they bother to fire up the FUD Cannon(tm) so soon. Seems to me that having this agreement come out on the heels of the IBM desktop migration announcement might be turning up the heat in Redmond...
We can only hope.
There's a difference between monitoring bandwidth utilization and inspecting the traffic which comprises that utilization. Bandwidth monitoring typically comes down to SNMP statistics such as # of packets/MB/GB transferred, perhaps delving into the protocol headers to see which services are being used, etc. Content inspection, on the other hand, would entail examining the payload. I would fully expect an ISP to monitor their bandwidth and other metrics of their network service - there's no other real way to determine if everything is operating properly, if its necessary to scale the infrastructure, if there is a security event, etc. DF