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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: B
> >> My argument was that in addition to the peering settlement charges, > >> each network would charge their customers for the traffic they generate. > >> So, if you ask your web hosting customers to add traffic, and actually > >> pay them for that, then my customers that request content from yours > >> get a bigger bill than they used to. My customers stop going to your > >> customers site. (I'll provide them with an itemized bill that lets them > >> see what cost so much and why.) > > [email protected] wrote: > >This is nice. Do you have any idea what kind of backend software would you > >need to be able to process that much data in real-time? > > Netflow seems to scale up to DS-3 levels with no problems, and, in fact, > I haven't seen too many problems with it on OC-3's either... Now, the > UDP export to the receiver could cause some issues. But with 400MHZ > processors becoming common-place, I don't think its that difficult to > do. > > I'm not saying the technology is there today, but is there any doubt it won't > be tomorrow? Remember, you will be tracking sessions for lets say a period of 30 days. During that time as a backbone provider you would have to somehow make sure that you do not bill anyone twice, do not skip a site and do not add another one. What are you going to do about people that hit the sites via proxies or web-caches or NAT boxes? Also, I am not able to get the reference of the top of my head but I remember reading that no matter how large or how small the amount is, it costs about $3.00 to bill 1 account accounting time and materials. It is very hard to imagine that someone would like to spend $3.00x N mm every month on just billing. Alex
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