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DPI vendor says 90% of ISPs engage in traffic discrimination

Date: August 3, 2009

Author: Nate Anderson

QUOTE: Sandvine makes deep packet inspection hardware that can identify and then block... user traffic coming from particular applications such as Skype or BitTorrent clients. The 160 worldwide ISPs who use the company's products love this particular capability so much that a full 90 percent of them employ it to "manage" their networks in a discriminatory way.

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