Sandvine calls net neutrality "laughable," defends filtering

David Caputo, CEO of Sandvine Deep Packet Inspection ("DPI") technology, insists,"it's going to be laughable in the next two or three years that people used to say all packets should be treated equally."

Of course, it's probably no accident that Caputo's vision of a tiered Internet where throttlers are the good guys just happens to need his products in every network. And while his vision has a compelling logic too it, it's a logic that only makes sense in a truly competitive environment where ISPs can't simply install such tools as a way to artificially hike per-bit prices and pick "winners and losers" on the 'Net.

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