Re: Precise per GB traffic calculations.

[Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>]

On Aug 20, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:

>             Does anyone know of a solution that offers precise methods 
> of tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte 
> level and not at the rate of transfer level?
>
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> Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm 
> questioning whether the stats that the switch are giving us are that 
> accurate.

I don't know of any equipment that does NOT measure per-byte 
transferred.  The Mbps is done by taking the bytes transferred 
(multiply by 8) and divide by the time involved, usually 5 minute 
periods.

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TTFN,
patrick