Hi, I am a Post Graduate student from India and network management is my area of interest. I have been browsing through the net on different network management tools available in the market. In all of them, accounting management which is one of the FCAPS functionality is not supported on any of the NMS's. So I thought it would make sense if I contact a network operations group regarding this. Can you please throw some light on the following - 1. Why is "accounting" not part of most of the NMS's? 2. What do service providers use for billing their customers? It would be great if you could help me on this. Thanks a lot for your valuable time! Regards, Savitha ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Education Special: Study in the UK now. Go to http://in.specials.yahoo.com/index1.html