Verizon could control traffic by employing data caps but that can potentially slowdown data revenue growth as consumers will be paying less for limited data usage.

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But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).

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Their sensors record network traffic and use a feed of data about threat sources associated with command and control servers.

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Thus it becomes necessary to control the traffic in different ways so as to avoid disruption of data services.

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