RE: Internet usage for customers spanning data centers

We run into this issue rather frequently.

What we ended up doing in every data center deployment is to run MPLS on
backbone and operate a separate off-band transport network ("lan bridge")
for customer interconnects.  So customers receive one layer3 port for
internet, the other port comes off of LAN bridge switch that connects to his
cage in 2nd data center.

James


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Rick Kunkel
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Internet usage for customers spanning data centers

Hello folks,

It's been a long while since I've asked anything on here...

I've been dodging this issue for quite some time, but it's time to address 
it.  I have a couple of data centers.  Customer X has always had equipment 
in only one of these data centers, and getting usage data for him has 
always been pretty easy using SNMP.  Now though, he wants to have 
equipment in both data centers,and he plans to send a lot of replication 
data back and forth between the two data centers.  We only bill for 
bandwidth to the outside world.

How do others handle billing/usage in this situation?  I want to make sure 
that I'm charging him only for traffic that leaves our network.  My old 
method, gathering SNMP data on his switchport, will now include traffic 
destined for his machines in the other data center, and will therefore not 
work.

Thanks!

Rick
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