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Re: Precise per GB traffic calculations.

  • From: Patrick W Gilmore
  • Date: Fri Aug 20 17:25:17 2004 
On Aug 20, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
            Does anyone know of a solution that offers precise methods of tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte level and not at the rate of transfer level?

 

Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm questioning whether the stats that the switch are giving us are that accurate.
I don't know of any equipment that does NOT measure per-byte transferred. The Mbps is done by taking the bytes transferred (multiply by 8) and divide by the time involved, usually 5 minute periods.

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TTFN,
patrick