vadim wrote:
In any case, nobody was able to connect backbone flow traces for any significant amount of time. A typical Internet load on OC-3 would produce about 7000 fps, or 500 mil flows per day. Now, crunching that data to generate bills is going to be fun.
But you're not going to do accounting on backbone links to bill customers, you'd do that at their ingress. Now, if you have customers with OC-3's, then for the time being, I agree, you probably can't bill based on flows... But for customers from dial-up speeds up to DS-3's, the technology is there to do this today. Quesion is: is it cost feasible to do so? Sean ___________________________________ Sean Butler, CCIE #3897 IBM Global Services -- OpenNet Support Phone: 8-631-9809, 813-523-7353 Fax: 8-427-5475 813-878-5475 Internet email: sebutler@us.ibm.com