[90176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Usage-based billing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Dambier)
Wed May 3 17:50:56 2006
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 23:50:37 +0200
From: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Reply-To: peter@peter-dambier.de
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4458FBB4.5070800@exitleft.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
ravi wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> read through the charter/guidelines and I believe (hopefully correctly!)
> that my questions are not out of place. I am looking for advice on usage
> based billing solutions. I am interested both in the data collector /
> collection part and the billing part, and would ideally want separation
> between these two parts (so that the collector could be used with
> alternate billing systems, including in-house ones).
>
> Any suggestions on NetFlow/SFlow use? Tools (apart from Cflowd and
> flow-tools)? Commercial solutions? What are the general concerns with
> using NetFlow for billing? I understand I am asking a question that is
> very wide in scope, but would appreciate even generic pointers in response.
>
> Also, Juniper provides a set of alternate Network Accounting Solutions
> as their "response" to Flow-based accounting. Any pointers to comparison
> of their solution with others? Experiences? Implementation documents?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --ravi
>
>
How do you count DoS and SPAM? They are not wanted. Do you charge for them?
Just a silly user question :)
Kind regards
Peter and Karin
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