Table of Contents
IDC Opinion
In This Study
Methodology
Situation Overview
Introduction
Current Industry Dynamics and Internet Traffic Prioritization Methods
Standard SNMP MIB Monitoring
NetFlow
Figure: Cisco's NetFlow Architecture
Probes and Deep Packet Inspection
Traffic Analysis Tools
Table: Packet Inspection Vendors and Select Canadian Customers
DPI Architectures
In-line inspection
Table: In-Line Packet Capture Techniques
Figure: In-Line Port Aggregation Tap
Out of Band
Current Scenarios and Rationale to Perform Packet Inspection
Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Trends
Figure: Internet Protocol Application Histogram by Percentage of Bandwidth Consumed
Figure: Cisco Study of Consumer Broadband Traffic by Application for Three Regional Consumer Broadband Service Providers, 2007
Figure: Sandvine Global Internet Bandwidth Ranking by Application, 2007 (% Traffic)
Figure: U.S. Consumer Internet Traffic Analysis, 2007 (% IP Traffic)
Digital Media Applications
Figure: North America Digital Media Bandwidth Ranking, 2007 (% Traffic Bandwidth)
Network Fast Lanes: QoS and Tiered Services
Figure: Internet Applications' Service-Level Requirements
Information and Network Security
Law Enforcement and Lawful Access Proposals
CALEA
EU Cyber-Crime Treaty
National Security and U.S. Terrorist Surveillance Program
Figure: AT&T's Optical Splitter Rooms and Daytona Traffic Data Mining Database Enable Real-Time Monitoring of All IP Traffic
Figure: AT&T's Global Network Operations Center
ISP Implementation
Figure: Rogers Tiered Residential Internet Service Comparison
Bandwidth Shaping and the Net-Neutrality Debate
Bell Canada Throttling Spurs Complaints
Collateral Impact From Throttling
Verizon Embraces P2P
Figure: Verizon's Intelligent Routing for P2P File Delivery
TV Networks Embrace P2P
Future Outlook
Deep Packet Inspection Drivers: Internet Traffic Forecast
Figure: Cisco Global Internet Traffic Forecast by Customer Type (Petabytes/Month)
Figure: Global Consumer Internet Traffic Forecast by Application 2006-2012 (Petabytes/Month and % Traffic)
Deep Packet Drivers: IP Video
Figure: U.S. Internet Video Site Traffic in 2007 Compared with Total U.S. Internet Backbone Traffic in 2000 (Petabytes/Month)
DPI and Source Identification
Figure: Internet Applications Automatically Detected by PacketSeeker
DPI for Broadcast Content and Digital Rights Management: ISAN and Digital Watermark Technologies
Figure: ISAN Digital Watermark and Content Monitoring
Figure: Application of ISAN to Video Download
Digital Movie Distribution
MediaHedge
Google YouTube Video ID
Audience Search and Targeting
Google and Nielsen Partner for Ad Measurements
Challenges
Cost of Measurement Influenced by Network Scalability
Encryption and Offense-Defense
Essential Guidance
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Definitions
Methodology
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