Dear Friend,
- Do you know how much of your bandwidth is being
used for surfing and e-mail and how much for
business?
- Do you measure bandwidth usage across various
applications like Voice, Intranet, ERP, SCM and
the likes?
- Are you always plagued with requests for more
bandwidth? And you do not see an end to ever
increasing utilization to bandwidth.
In today's world, where there is a significant
pressure on controlling costs, bandwidth is a big
expense item and bandwidth usage is rarely controlled
and monitored within organizations.
Would you not as a CIO or IS manager like to
- control your bandwidth costs?
- reserve bandwidth for certain high priority
applications?
- pay for what you use and be in a position to
control usage?
To help you answer the above questions, we have
recently launched the IP Accounting service.
Read on for more details…
Chief Executive Officer
| IP
Accounting: Helping you identify how your
Bandwidth is being utilized? |
IP Accounting service from Net ProActive Services
In keeping with the above stated demands from many
of client organizations, Net ProActive Services has recently
launched the IP Accounting service. This
service helps organizations that are highly dependent
on IP networks, to account for usage of IP within the
organization.
Net ProActive Services' IP Accountant tool accounts
bandwidth usage across an enterprise or a service
provider's network to the respective individual users,
departments or profit centers. It collects usage data
from various network elements, aggregates it and
correlates with user data sources for user level
granularity.
While most of the tools lack specificity due to
IP-address based user identification, Net ProActive Services'
IP Accountant provides individual user level billing
through distributed data collection and correlation
logic. This enables apportioning of costs at a
Department or Profit Center level through logical
grouping and dynamic user classification, relevant in
a service provider environment.
IP Accountant offers a number of features, which
can be customized to the specific organizational
needs.
- Apportioning cost to the individual users or
profit centers
- Logically distinguishable view of usage data
(based on IP pool, subnet or other parameters)
- Minimal human intervention as the data
collection is automated
- A reliable and consistent correlation logic
- Modular and scalable - other logs from network
elements (VoIP or Radius) can be processed and
added as and when desired
- Manual and automatic billing
- Management of network IP inventory and
structures as the IP information is collected
continuously
By having a well-defined and segregated view of the
bandwidth usage, Enterprises gain through optimum use
of limited network resource. Net ProActive Services' IP
Accounting service enhances these benefits through:
- User identification by unique individual user
names
- Accounting bandwidth to individual users
(identified by names) or logically defined user
groups like profit centers or departments
distributed across locations
- Bandwidth planning for application and
infrastructure changes or business expansion
- Analytical view of changes in business usage of
IT infrastructure or applications
- Planning policies for network resource
optimization
- Monitoring QoS provided to mission critical
applications and users
- Network misuse detection
- Accounting in a highly mobile human resource
environment
Service providers (ISP/ASP, etc.) worldwide are
competing fiercely today necessitating continuous
innovation to win the equity from disparate customers.
For the forward-looking service providers offering
differentiated QoS based services, Net ProActive Services' IP
Accounting service provides packaged data with
analysis and helps in:
- Moving from flat fee to service based billing
both for individual and corporate customers
- Dynamic user classification by usage patterns
- Monitoring QoS
- Readiness for usage growth through a
comprehensive analysis of growth trends
Net ProActive Services' IP Accounting service is a
customized offering both to enterprises and service
providers bridging the gap in user identification in a
dynamic IP address scenario and in a mobile
employee/user environment. It also enables logical
user groupings in a distributed user environment using
hierarchical association rules to cater best to the
specific business interests in network billing.
Net ProActive Services' IP Accounting service is the
best-fit support to achieve a corporate's vision,
tracking its performance vis-ŕ-vis integrated IT
initiatives, valuable human resources and quality in
service delivery.
