ISP Billing

[Noble T N]

I am implementing a Transit ISP. I have NetFlow that is to be configured. I am aware that billing is done by this application. But how do I manage the bandwidth used by my clients..like different sizes of leased lne..so that I can bill them appropriately. What is the normal mechanism for this.

Thanks in advance.

Noble

[b.hsu]

Cisco partnered with several vendors who will be producing billing applications using NetFlow data collected from routers. You can go to this URL for more data on netflow switching:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios120/12cgcr/switch_c/xcprt3/xcovntfl.htm

And some of the partners we have producing billing applications for netflow are:

Solect - http://www.solect.com/

Portal - http://www.portal.com/

Apogee - http://www.apogeenet.com/index2.html

Bell Systems - http://www.belle.dk/prodframeoct98.html

[Noble T N]

Thanks for the reply and it is worth as well. But will u know how can I control the speed of the connections to my ISP customers..say 1 mob or 2 mb etc...I will be using ethernet connectivity to ISP edge routers from my POP setup.

Thanks in advance.

Noble

[CKBudrodeen]

Noble,

We have ethernet to customers, physically terminating on a switch port.

However, the ip circuit terminates on a 'wholesale' router. On the ip interface, you can run some sort of policing/service policy to rate limit bandwidth in & out to the customer.

Is that what you are talking about?

[Noble T N]

Thanks,

Noble

[joshwelchall]

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@Noble T N wrote:

I am implementing a Transit ISP. I have NetFlow that is to be configured. I am aware that billing is done by this application. But how do I manage the bandwidth used by my clients..like different sizes of leased lne..so that I can bill them appropriately. What is the normal mechanism for this.

Thanks in advance.

Noble

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 Thanks