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Originally Posted by Dephormation

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_rep.../a.webwise.net

...returns...

Netblock Owner IP address OS Web Server Last changed
Phorm IPv4 Assignment 89.145.112.40 F5 Big-IP Apache 3-Jun-2008

Update; the BT docs mention both ACE and F5

WHICH THEN BEGS THE QUESTION - if BT do not have the skills to install and operate ACE kit, who does?

Contractors I would expect.

Also, re-aquainting myself with the diagrams shows that the ACE module simply hands off the http requests to the F5 L7 switches which seem to be doing the donkey work.

Something else has just occured to me. BT Retail are planning to phase out PSTN in favour of VoIP. What would you like to bet that this traffic will also end up being 'profiled'? Then it really will be *exactly* like tapping your phone connection.