[129474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Inline Traffic Management / Tracking - Usage Based Billing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Tue Sep 7 20:53:13 2010
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 20:52:36 -0400
From: "Paul Stewart" <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi there...
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We are examining several options currently for appliances/devices that
sit inline (most likely) and can perform all/some of these services:
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-Track customer usage and generate monthly reports based on username
(PPPOE) or cable MAC (DHCP) - and doesn't require any changes to our
Radius infrastructure. In other words, it has the smarts to gather the
username/IP combination along with the Radius Start/Stop to do accurate
reporting.
-Throttling of certain services/applications at certain times of day
(looking for fairly extensive options here including ability to take
total link capacity into account - reasonably dynamic)
-24X7X365 support and hardware coverage (no next business day shipping -
4 hour response onsite kind of stuff)
-Clustering/HA options
-Centralized management/reporting
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This is NOT an open invitation for sales people to contact me - I'm
asking here for operational feedback with likes/dislikes. I can
appreciate if most folks prefer to reply offline. We have trialled the
Arbor solution to date but that is the only comparison we have so far.
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Thanks,
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Paul Stewart
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