[c-nsp] NetFlow for Bandwidth Billing

[Justin Shore]

TCIS List Acct wrote:
> 
> Bill Nash wrote:
>> Sounds like you're in the 'small' scale, with some room to grow for 
>> 'medium'. 
>>
>> Check out:
>> http://www.networkuptime.com/tools/netflow/
>>
>> If you're talking billing, you're probably interested in 95th percentile. 
>> Flavio will do that out of the box, but I don't like the front end. Stager 
>> is hackable as hell. I've used softflowd for all kinds of things, even as 
>> a stand-in for tcpdump. Your requirements will obviously vary from mine, 
>> but that's at least a start.
>>
>> - billn
> 
> At the moment, we primarily bill based on total GB used in a given time period. 
>   We do have some customers interested in 95th percentile as well, so the 
> flexibility to do it that way would be nice.

Isn't this one of the many things that the Service Control Engine is 
supposed to do for you (inline with the traffic of course)?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6151/index.html

Justin