Because routers typically don’t have the “horsepower” to drive DPI related tasks. Every major DPI vendor uses a series of (typically custom) ASIC’s to offload the intensive processing required. I would also question if Ubiquiti is really loading up the internal resources required to support something they are giving away for free…
I think Ubiquiti has done a great job at disrupting for sure .. and I know that myself personally am going to spend some time again looking at their stuff and try to understand where it “fits”. But name one company that has had to “lower their seriously over priced equipment and to rethink their strategies” because of Ubiquiti routers/switches? From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Brett A Mansfield Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 8:50 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti DPI? I don't know why anyone would have a problem with them putting this on existing routers. If you don't like their routers, don't buy them. If you do like their routers but think a feature shouldn't be there, don't enable it. I think it's great that ubiquiti innovates the way they do. They have some great products that blow other products out of the water in one way or another. And it's forced other companies to lower their seriously over priced equipment and to rethink their strategies. Ubiquiti really is disrupting things in the industry in only good ways. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2015, at 6:17 AM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> > wrote: Well it will be interesting … sure would be nice to see someone “disrupt” I agree … but there have been lots of folks try to provide “DPI” and fail badly as they didn’t really understand what they were getting into… and doing it on existing routers is usually the first mistake in my opinion….. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 1:27 AM To: af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti DPI? They've got the resources to do it, would be nice to see someone undercut the existing players. On Thursday, July 23, 2015, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org <mailto:p...@paulstewart.org> > wrote: I have no idea but if it’s like other attempts I’ve seen from companies to stack heavy CPU “stuff” into a router, then stability and any type of scaling would be first concerns. DPI is a very complex item to see someone like Ubiquiti jump into in my opinion… From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af-boun...@afmug.com');> ] On Behalf Of Jeremy Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 7:13 PM To: af@afmug.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');> Subject: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti DPI? Ok, so now that deep packet inspection has been announced I'd assume any NDAs have been lifted. Have any of you been using this? Any idea what type of latency is added? That pricing model is a whole lot different from any DPI tool that I have ever seen....
