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Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)

A type of computer network packet filtering that examines a packet's data section (and sometimes the header) as it passes an inspection point to detect any protocol non-compliance, viruses, spam, intrusions, or defined criteria, and thus identify, reroute or stop packets with undesirable code or data.