Re: DPI deployment use case

[Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3011 () gmail com>]

Apparently Telcos are faced with implementing the following algorithm
to create value-added services:

- Take service S with provides value Y
- Artificially remove value, creating new service V
- Price V at the same level as S
- Offer old S at a higher price point and market it as a "value added"
service, compared to V

One would have thought that "value added" referred to well, *adding*
value to what already exists, not rehashing current offers and
artificially limiting them.

But then again, I don't think like a marketing person.

If you want a funny look at a not-so-funny and grim possible future
scenario, you might want to read this:
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/~olaf/LACNIC_XVI_Meat_and_Greed.pdf

regards

Carlos

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin () gmail com> wrote:
>        I imagine that those proposals are not from users …
>
>        I would add "tyrannical" telcos cracking down on their own customers.
>
> -as
>
> On 7 Oct 2011, at 14:20, Claudio Lapidus wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martin Millnert <millnert () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've seen tyrannical governments use Bluecoat's to crack down on their
> > > own population(*).
> > > Was this the sort of use-case you were looking for? :)
> > Ummm, not really... :)
> >
> > Actually, we've been faced with proposals to build services based on traffic
> > classification, like e.g. "access our own webmail and all social networking
> > sites, but not skype and video" or the capability to do exact metering based
> > on net traffic time or volume, as well as being able to redirect the
> > customer to various captive portals using HTTP redirect directly from the
> > DPI box, and such.



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