Watchdog launches cloud-based Internet filtering service
- 17 December, 2009 13:40
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Hot on the heels of the Government’s controversial Internet filtering plans, a new cloud-based provider has launched what it claims is an inexpensive filtering option for small ISPs.
The Hosted Watchdog Services from Watchdog Solutions is a cloud-based ISP filtering system that allows ISPs to control their customers’ connections without having to install equipment within their own networks. Managing director and founder of WatchDog, Peter Mancer, said there were some 750 ISPs in the SMB space that its solution suited.
“At the lower end, the ISP might not have the capital to install a filter on its own network,” Mancer said. “We’re offering two kinds of cloud services – one is the filtering of illegal content only, which will become more of a focus when the Government regulations are put into place, and the other is a value-adding filtering service. The ISP has full control over the traffic, and the Government is offering funding to ISPs that offer this kind of filter.”
M86 and Optinet solutions are available to ISPs under the solution, Mancer added.
Watchdog’s services have been sold into its home base in NZ, as well as the UK and Europe. The company also supplied filtering trials at the Enex Test Laboratory as part of the filter trial process.
The launch follows the release of the Internet filter trial report by Senator Stephen Conroy, which determined that the Government would go ahead with the implementation of mandatory filtering at the ISP level.
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Anonymous
Cloud based routing of ISP traffic? You're kidding right? Just add in the extra RTT latency.
Anonymous
Cloud based filtering has it's place but for business, enterprise and Telco it would be a mistake due to the added latency. Blue Coat's Web Pulse for instance checks only new web content or links detected by ProxySG secure web Web gateways or ProxyClient or K9 remote clients are sent in real-time to the WebPulse cloud for DLA inspection where updates to the master WebFilter database provide immediate protection.
Anonymous
Cloud-Based Filtering Does Work for ISPs
This service is up and running in 10 ISPs in New Zealand and no, no-one notices a 20ms delay in their web requests. It is not designed for Telcos but for ISPs with smaller amounts of traffic.
Anonymous
Can this be true?
I hear there is a company out of the US that has designed filtering systems for large telco's that gives them completely customised filtering but at multi-gig throughputs & putting incredibly small latency on the line, i.e. around 10 micro-seconds...
Their name is Zscaler but it all sounds a bit too good to be true...
Anyone else heard of them?
Roddy
Cool company, doubtful number mate...
Well the 10 micro-seconds is a doubtful number for two reasons with Zscaler:
1. They run multiple security layers, of which the fastest would be blacklist filtering, and the internal processing time in memory for that alone requires more than 10 microseconds, much less taking the data handling and management processes for everything else into account ...
2. Zscaler backhauls the traffic to their datacentre partners. It is a physical impossibility to transport the data to their systems in the datacentres in anything near that timescale, much less process it.
You cannot even transport the traffic from gateway routers to their appliances on the same backbone in the same ISP at those speeds...
I think you are reading a "in the CPU" single process step timing, and not a lookup, much less a round trip event timing for the data request thru backhaul to the datacentre and back to the user timescale...??
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