How operators can throttle mobile BB users

Bulmers

Interesting article from O2 in Germany how they are now going to use Deep Packet Inspection, DPI to throttle users after upgrading network to 7.2Mbps

I guess they have to given the fact.." More specifically, the operator has found that 5 percent of its customers are using 80 percent of network capacity. Herr explained that most of O2's 14.5 million customers in Germany are young consumers (rather than business users) who are mainly using mobile data in the evenings at home. The devices being used to hog most of the 3G network capacity are USB modems such as Huawei's E160 and Options Icon 210"

With DPI, operators can monitor which customers are using what services and when, and then determine whether to throttle the bandwidth for heavy users, if necessary, to free up capacity for other customers

I guess it's something the operators in Ireland will have to bring in as speeds increase to try to police the usage


http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=178970&

foggy_lad

three could use this system to "reserve" bandwidth for NBS customers?