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To: ynot who wrote (5743)	10/29/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

This is a highly interesting and timely topic. Some assumptions must be made, however, in order for dialog to be meaningful. I will assume that you are now referring to ISP types of traffic. Billing records on the 'net are still foo foo, for the purposes of extracting information at this level of granularity. They only reflect port charges onto the cloud, loop access, and some other attributes which are for the most part nascent, still, like QoS, tunneling, etc. And of course, there are web hosting and services charges (DNS, Email, disk space, caching, special mirroring, etc.). But they don't reflect route and session information, usually, even though many of their network elements are capable of counting bits and bytes. The ISPs have their hands full right now, and the only solutions being used to aid in collecting data on traffic are those which individual providers, scarce as they are, put into place themselves. They supposedly have the necessary information, USUALLY, to compute route utilization for peering and hosting settlements, and for doing predictive traffic engineering, which is also a very hot topic of discussion now on the 'net. And they are usually only successful at being able to collect "good" data on those routes which are within their own domains, if they have a homogeneous mix of router and admin provisions in place. You can imagine what takes place across borders, however, between ISPs using different accounting software and router platforms. The ones which are in place have more to do with aggregate flows than individual user streams that would be of interest to you. Unless I am mistaken about your question, that is, and if so, please clarify. Also note the qualifier in my previous post. It was directed at voice usage. Regards, Frank Coluccio