How about they just run their Internet through their datacenter.  Then  
you can sell them the 10G transport between their DC and their office  
and the Internet bandwidth to the DC.

Their office -> DC -> you -> Internet.


On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Peter Kranz wrote:

> That's a good idea.. but no interface where I can pickup A or B only  
> to
> perform the subtraction.. Any upstream interfaces will have other  
> customer
> traffic on them..
>
> Peter Kranz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Cruse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:43 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Splitting 2 traffic streams for billing/ 
> accounting
> purposes
>
> Peter Kranz wrote:
>> In the process of turning up a 10G link from a customer's office to
>> one of our data centers.
>>
>> They want both internet access for their office and connectivity to
>> their gear in the data center.
>>
>> For purposes of billing, I need to be able to split the traffic into
>> routed Internet Access traffic vs routed access to their gear in the
>> DC..
>
> Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but couldn't you use MRTG or similar  
> software to
> monitor the bandwidth over:
>
> A:  The 10G link to their office
> B:  Their uplink into your network
>
> Then to separate the LAN only traffic, just subtract B from A?  I'm  
> pretty
> sure you can cook up an MRTG recipe to do just that.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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