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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [Re: [RE: MPLS billing model]]
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:29:26PM -0500, joshua sahala wrote: > > Alex Rubenstein <[email protected]> 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. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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