[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

Khoo, Andrew Andrew.Khoo at team.telstra.com
Fri Feb 8 19:18:10 EST 2013


Or with the way things work in the strange corporate world, be given them as a use case so cisco can "sell" the solution to a host of other telcos all over the world?


(this view is of my own, and does not reflect that of my present employer, nor do i know of anything related to this DPI/p2p situation within same)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton
> Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013 12:08 PM
> To: Paul Brooks
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 08:26:21AM +1100, Paul Brooks wrote:
> 
>  > Applying Pareto (the '80/20 rule'),  'heavy users' are the top
>  > 20% of customers by > usage,  that are causing the 80% of
>  > 'non-value add traffic'.
> 
> Where "value" is defined by someone other than the instigator
> of the traffic.
> 
> I'm sure if you asked a subscriber to appraise the value of their
> traffic, you'd probably get a different answer :-)
> 
>  > /me wonders how many 'heavy users' will opt-out from the trial...
> 
> Given the number of ways to outfox DPI, I suspect the answer is,
> "Not many."
> 
> Telstra might have to spend a few million dollars on Cisco SCE
> blades to work that out though.
> 
>   -  mark
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