A small to medium-sized enterprise customer has a campus network that consists of 10GE and 40GE wired links with an Internet access link of 1GE to the service provider. The network connects to the Internet using redundant firewalls. Sometimes user traffic saturates the core network links. The customer wants to deploy deep packet inspection for monitoring traffic generated by its staff leaving the customer network. Which place in the network should you recommend DPI to be deployed?
A) at the data center
B) in the core layer
C) in the WAN
D) at the Internet gateway
E) at theaccess layer

Question

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Deploying DPI at the Internet gateway allows monitoring of all traffic leaving the customer network, ensuring that all outgoing traffic is inspected before it reaches the Internet.

A Small to Medium-Sized Enterprise Customer Has a Campus Network