[Re: [RE: MPLS billing model]]

Tue Nov 25 21:56:19 UTC 2003

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:29:26PM -0500, joshua sahala wrote:
> 
> Alex Rubenstein <alex at nac.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > we are still in the testing phases, but i believe that we are 
> > > planning to use a port+traffic billing scheme, if/when we go live 
> > > and start trying to sell it
> > 
> > do you mean:
> > 
> > 	$port + $traffic_through_port
> > 
> > or:
> > 
> > 	$port + $traffic_over_vpn_tunnel
> > 
> > 
> > I ask this, because, it's very possible that the customer facing port
> > could be a VLAN trunk, and that there would be a hub-and-spoke config
> > to multiple leaf ports; other variations exist, as well.
> > 
> 
> good question...i don't think that we had considered that.  the 
> expectation was that most of the ports would be serial.  guess that is
> another wrench i can throw at the project ;)

In a working transport system, what goes in must come out. So, if you add
all the ports in a common direction (in or out), you'll at least get a
nice aggregate even if you can't measure individual virtual circuits 
properly due to whatever brokeass vendor you're using. :)

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