Typical problem - What can I do about p2p and now even worse encrypted p2p?

Nothing upsets a user more than getting squeezed on his music download when he is not using his paid for bandwidth. If the user is also browsing and sending mail then he expects to lose some p2p speed whilst he is doing this. From a carriers perspective there is the additional fact that any protocol can be abused so policing only the “bad” ones does not work effectively. (Users infected with viruses, running business mail servers, newsgroups etc) Wouldn’t it be great if your users could do as they please within their allocated bandwidth without affecting others? Wouldn’t it be great if all their latency sensitive applications achieved higher priority within their bandwidth allocations? Well with Opteq they can....

Carriers are resellers of bandwidth. They offer "internet service" that ideally would be service/application independent whilst maintaining the highest quality of service per paying user and enforcing the user to what he paid for. (Allowing for triple play bundles etc)

Traditionally carriers restricted per user applications as there was no technical alternative to manage users fairly. The problem with relying only on restricting services from a technical standpoint is what do you do when the traffic is encrypted or compressed or both? Many bandwidth-hog protocols like "p2p" are moving toward encryption and tunnelling which means they will become impossible for anyone to detect. Adding to this dilemma is the fact that legitimate uses of p2p are growing exponentially and they would then also be limited. P2p technology will become common for OS updates like Microsoft windows (vista service pack one is over 1Gb) - The World of War craft Patch downloader (7 million subscribers) utilizes bit torrent, Any of the legal music bootleg sites, The film studio Warner Brothers Entertainment plans to distribute its films and TV shows using Bit torrent. Universal Studios also released footage of its film, "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift" with Bit Torrent.

The fact is illegal p2p sites are moving towards encryption in which case no layer7 equipment will be able to decode the p2p tunnels.

Opteq’s unique features such as “fair allocation of bandwidth” automatically ensures users of the network get what they pay for no matter what other users are doing and therefore removes the need for application based quotas.

 

Simply turning on the Opteq device with fair share will resolve most of your network problems and have users smiling instantly.