I'm a networking professional (sounds fancy, doesn't it?) in the field of Deep Packet Inspection - DPI for short. Reading the news, it seems there are enough misconceptions regarding DPI for it to be interesting to blog about it from the perspective of an industry insider.
If that means 'insight', 'rambling' or 'missive from the enemy' is entirely up to you, of course. For me, this is simply a place to comment. Slashdot has some interesting discussions every once in a while on the DPI topic, but the signal to noise ratio is absolutely dreadful and way too many posters have no idea what they're talking about. Harsh but true.
Any opinions stated here are my opinions, not those of my employer - a corporate entity that shall remain unnamed. Keep in mind that they are opinions - my point of view, not the objective truth. I'll try to back them up by facts as often as possible, but be advised that it will not always be possible to do so for one reason or the other.
If you rather want somewhat well written corporate-entity-approved texts, dpacket.org is probably the place you're looking for (just keep in mind that most people posting there are stakeholders in the industry - i.e only slightly more impartial than Bill O'Reilly). I'll make sure to highlight and comment any relevant news from that blog.
Addition & retrospect: Shortly past the inception of this blog I got asked to do some more writing on the topic of DPI on another blog. As that would be in a more official capacity than what I do here - i.e signed with the company name - it didn't really make sense to keep my place of employment a pseudo-secret anymore. So in the interest of disclosure, I work for Procera Networks. If I tell you to buy a PacketLogic on this blog, please take it with a grain of salt.
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