RESULTS of a federal government trial show that live ISP-level content filtering does not have a negative impact on network performance and can work in a real-time environment.
However, a highly anticipated report based on the pilot is still weeks away and the federal Opposition says the government can not be trusted to deliver on the $43 billion national broadband network when the goalpost keeps shifting for a mere $300,000 filtering trial.
"The trial shows that filtering does work and that the gear stops identified IP addresses without major degradation to network speed," sources close to the trial said.
"We can stop individual URLs, IP addresses, but we can't stop peer-to-peer nor virtual private network-type traffic."
Unwired, Optus, Primus, Highway 1, Nelson Bay Online, Netforce, OMNIconnect, TECH 2U and Webshield participated in the trial, conducted by Enex TestLab.
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