Cable: DPI is good for us; Congressman: it’s frightening
Saturday, April 25th, 2009This article is about ISP’s requesting permission from congress to allow DPI or Deep Packet Inspection. This DPI process is where ISP’s look inside each of your packets with specialized equipment. ISP’s want to implement DPI for various reasons. Some of thse reasons are that ISP’s want to use DSP are in order to slow down certain types of traffic such as torrents or video files. ISP’s might also want to block VoIP traffic unless their customers pay a premium for access to those ports.
This is what Road Warrior VPN.com steps in to help out. When your traffic is protected with your Road Warrior VPN.com account, the ISP can only see encrypted traffic, they have no idea what is inside the encrypted tunnel.