**4.3 Summary**

In this subsection, we have presented a uniform high-speed traffic collection platform for intrusion detection/prevention based on sampling on FPGAs—called HSTCP—that has the ability to cope with very high speed network traffic (even Tbps). By employing complete mice flows' capture and adaptive elephant flow sampling, HSTCP effectively reduces the volume of network traffic for intrusion detection/prevention without losing its intrinsic characteristics. In addition, HSTCP provides a flexible and scalable platform for network IDSs/IPSs faced to the challenge of future high-speed networks.
