OK, I think Procera and Sandvine both have a per user cost (maybe a couple dollars per user) and Procera has a cost for purchasing upfront. My box which can do a gig of traffic cost $18,000 with the first year of signature updates and it is like $2500 annually after that.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Wireless Administrator <[email protected]> wrote: > Kurt, > > We use PPPoE/Radius to set basic Queues on the Access Servers but want to > do shaping at an application level. Ntop reports are showing an increasing > number of things getting out of control. Windows updates %#@?! for one. > > > > Steve > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kurt Fankhauser > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 23, 2016 1:44 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Traffic Shaping Appliance > > > > Are you are just looking to shape general traffic to a client (like give > someone a 1.5Mbps plan) then you could use Mikrotik and simple queues which > is very in-expensive. If you want to do some shaping on an application like > only streaming or Windows Updates and stuff like that then that's where > things start to get expensive. I am using the Procera myself for that and > although I havn't tried any of the other brands you mention I am very happy > with the Procera. > > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Wireless Administrator <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We’re in the market for a traffic shaping appliance and have had a look at > Procera so far. I have a list of vendors/products a have assembled over > time that I was going to look into: > > > > Saisei > > NetEqualizer > > *Packeteer (Bluecoat)* > > *NetEnforcer (Allot)* > > *Network Composer (Cymphonix)* > > *Exinda* > > > > *Anyone care to share experiences on this subject?* > > > > *Steve B.* > > > > >
