Regards Gary Wilkinson
gary@datafast.net.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale E. Reed Jr. <daler@iea-software.com>
To: emerald@iea-software.com <emerald@iea-software.com>
Date: Sunday, 28 March 1999 10:54
Subject: Re: [Emerald] Advise required
>> Gary Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>> Dale,
>> We have just purchase Emerald and want it to marry better into a
>> business activity. We are a new ISP which charge mainly on data usage
>> not hours.
>> ie:
>> Plan 1: unlimited hours x cents per meg (Min $10.00)
>> Plan 2: unlimited hours $x per x megs
>> and
>> Block 1: 25 hours or x megs which ever comes first for $x
>>
>> In addition to this we also bill lan connectivity in which we are
>> using another package to measure data usage over lan and wan.
>>
>> What I would like to do is consolidate all these into Emerald somehow.
>> My question is, are you looking at this type of billing or should we
>> do our own thing.
>> If we are to do our own thing could you give us the best direction in
>> which to proceed.
>
>RADIUS traffic usage billing is already in the works, although I
>don't have a time frame for it. Part of the work is creating a
>more generic ability to bill any type of usage, whether RADIUS
>traffic, LAN traffic, web traffic, FTP traffic, etc. Collectors
>will be able to put data into the Emerald database, and you can
>define the rules in Emerald on how to bill for it.
>
>What lan connectivity package are you using to measure the data
>and what type of output does it have?
>
>--
>
>Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT
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