Packet Sniffing: Deep Packet Inspection and Net Neutrality

Table of Contents

• 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
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Definitions
  • Methodology
  • Synopsis