[ale] SDN in the home paper

[Alex Carver]

On 2019-05-29 05:39, James Sumners via Ale wrote:
> I'm trying to research alternatives to Ubiquiti's UniFi product line
> because they don't currently support bandwidth usage history recording, and
> don't seem to be adding it in any sort of hurry, and came across this paper
> -- https://www.cogentoa.com/article/10.1080/23311916.2018.1469949/references
> . It's a survey of some 40+ articles that are looking into how Software
> Defined Networking (which is what the UniFi line really is) can be used in
> the home. I'm about 10 pages into this paper and am noticing a disturbing
> theme I thought you guys would be interested in: the surveyed papers seem
> to lean toward shunting off the controller to the ISP. Want to enable QoS
> for streaming video and VoIP? No problem. Just let the ISP inspect your
> traffic and provide you with new tiers of service priced accordingly.
> 
> This is not the rabbit hole I was hoping to find.
> 


The bandwidth and usage data is available if you run the Unifi
Controller software and bind the AP to it.  It gives you data on a
per-client and per-AP basis.