It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding recent copyright protection bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the PROTECT IP Act, which threatened to curtail free speech on ...

Lawmakers in Washington took a break from dealing with the economy this morning to examine one piece of controversial technology that big companies are quickly distancing themselves from - Deep Packet ...

There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the "improper" use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled ...

Imagine a device that sits inline in a major ISP's network and can throttle P2P traffic at differing levels depending on the time of day. Imagine a device that allows one user access only to e-mail ...

"As operators evaluate likely targets for virtualization as part of a larger network functions virtualization strategy, DPI is a clear target, though ongoing concerns around performance and capacity ...

With cybercrime taking the enterprise ecosystem by storm, the issue of securing a network infrastructure along with restricting employee access to unwanted internet resources is a top-of-mind priority ...

ISPs and other network providers can use deep packet inspection to monitor all the data transmitted to and from your computer; encryption via a virtual private network keeps your data transfers ...

Deep down, most Net users realize that everything they do online can be watched and tracked. Most, however, forget this on a day-to-day basis. That's why a new technology called deep packet inspection ...

Analyzing network traffic to discover the type of application that sent the data. In order to prioritize traffic or filter out unwanted data, deep packet inspection can differentiate data, such as ...

If legislation like SOPA and PIPA ever passes, it may require your ISP to start monitoring your online activity with deep packet inspection It’s easy to turn a deaf ear to the controversy surrounding ...