Recent content by ripai

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    Traffic Shaping

    No, I mean you have no idea what really happens to your traffic on the internet, which is why firms like Rapport exist, even if you are running ssl, it's tough to be certain you don't have a man in the middle attack. Neither do you know the page you are visiting hasn't been hacked. My point is...
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    Traffic Shaping

    Might be, but that is true of any part of the internet and neither happens to be true in this case
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    Traffic Shaping

    You can setup the edge router to force the traffic through the cloud as a proxy (there are other ways, but they can't work round that). Yes, you can do IP address. You can define a big file and say files larger than xMB get cut back to y% of the pipe. Can do daily bandwidth quota, monthly is...
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    Traffic Shaping

    Your question was "throttle P2P access or provide accountability on monthly data throughput" so if you apply QoS in the cloud and directory integration you can limit the the bandwidth assigned to a traffic class and you can determine the user credentials from AD. So if your user requests a big...
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    Traffic Shaping

    You proxy through the cloud and can set bandwidth limits, or block traffic types completely
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    Traffic Shaping

    There are only 2 sensible ways to do it and it depends on your view of the world which is best. Packeteer were bought by BlueCoat, but the PacketShaper still exists, so you could buy one of those and put it in your network, or we have a cloud based solution, where there is no capital cost, just...