[AusNOG] Telstra's Texan Teaser - Tin Foil Stetsun anyone?

[Alastair Johnson]

On 6/25/2012 4:13 PM, Keiran Holloway wrote:
> On 06/26/2012 08:44 AM, Eric Pinkerton wrote:
>> This sounds like BS to me, even if they did track your browsing history
>> for billing disputes, there are much more elegant ways to do it.
>
> +1
>
> I've *never* heard of any ISP (much less Telstra) provide any level of
> detail above "this is the amount of data which has been used each day
> for the past month" when justifying data usage.
>
> I'd love someone to show me a precedent when this has actually been
> furnished in the past.

There are products in the market place, and deployed in operational 
networks (not necessarily in Australia) that can provide this level of 
reporting. However it's usually done with DPI/'bump-in-the-wire' type 
technology rather than whatever this particular approach is.

I have seen operators provide this information in the past to end 
customers, based on traffic seen at the GGSN/PDSN, to indicate where the 
traffic was going to/from.