“Let’s face it, it’s inevitable: Your all-you-can-eat Internet plan is likely going to be history. And if you watch a lot of Netflix and Hulu online, your Internet bill is probably going to go up substantially,” said Dan Frommer, a writer for Business Insider.
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Limiting bandwidth is becoming a trendy thing to do. AT&T already started to limit their bandwidth for broadband and DSL customers earlier this month. AT&T is capping 150 GB to their DSL users and 250 for their U-Verse users with a 10$ fee per 50GB over that. As a service provider looking to move forward in this trend a NetFlow Billing Analyzer is a great way to monitor customer’s bandwidth for billing purposes.
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A: Yes, depending on how you need to invoice.
Being a vendor that supports NetFlow and sFlow reporting, we deal with lots of flow questions. Most recently, I was dealing with a customer that was trying to figure out how to do billing with sFlow. Depending on how you want to invoice, sFlow may or may not be appropriate. This document from Inmon sums it up nicely by saying, “sampling does not provide a 100% accurate result.” The document goes on to state, “but it does provide a result in which the error can be accurately characterized.” Which is really a fancy way of saying that sampling allows you to be ‘fairly’ accurate.
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