I can attest that Palo Alto can handle a lot of these requirements. Unsure 
about the user quotas. You would be able to run reports on problem users via ad 
accounts and report to management if they are hogging precious bandwidths.
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Doug Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

On 11/3/2011 6:17 PM, Atom Powers wrote:
> Management is not-quite happy with our current Internet filter and has
> asked me to look for a better product. Specifically, I'm looking for a
> product that does more than just block URLs, something that
> policy-based bandwidth shaping so that, fPaloor example, YouTube is
> allowed but has a lower data rate than nasa.gov. Big points if it can
> tie into LDAP and has bandwidth quotas per account.
>
> Normally I would build something out of open-source software, but I
> already have too many projects on my hands and I need something
> quickly.
>
> Any suggestions? What have you used? What would you recommend?
>
Palo alto networks appliances can definitely do content and protocol
based identification, QOS, filtering, and rate limiting. I'm not
positive about the quotas per account thing, but it does have user tie-ins.

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