The billing system traffic billing, which sounds simple: the users charge as much as they use MB. But when we get to campuses, parks, businesses, the first question that comes up is:Which traffic is really supposed to be charged?Is it also necessary for a student to visit the school’s teaching system, library databases, and in-school video stations, and do these flows include his personal food package?
The problem seems simple, actually the most easily overlooked piece of a billing strategy. Many options start with a head shot."Cost by flow"The following is a report: the student runs 50 G in one month after he has read the school ' s in-house benefactors, and the flow bill is equivalent to paying for the students to see the video; or the park cams return dozens of G's every day, if it is counted on an employee account, he can't complain. If the inner network borders are not clear, the flow bill is a mess.
V7 NATHHELL_AUTH_BILLINGA fee-free strategy and diversion of flowsThe product is clearly listed in the introduction."Fee-free strategy": Free meal packages are available for special users or on a special occasion, but no charge is paid."Special scene"Defines how, not automatically known by the system, but by the operator in a strategy. There are generally three categories:
The first is...Clear intranet free resourcesThe educational resources of the campus, library OPAC, in-school curriculum platforms, school-based mobile media stations and a network of school officials are not meant to charge students’ fees. This is done by adding IP segments or domain names to the list of billboards, which users can access as internal traffic at the gateway level without recording their personal flow pool.
The second isFree time or free SSIDSome campuses provide for a break at noon, after work or on weekends, with WiFi office free of charge to their employees; or a special visitor SSID, who is free but limited in speed and time. This is not the same as the above IP White List.——The above is exempt by destination, either time or network. In the V7 4W+B+S strategy, both time and SSID are configured dimensions that can be combined: working day hours are a normal sSD count, which automatically cuts to SSID after work to free strategies.
The third category is...Free of charge for special population groupsTeachers, administrators, resident employees, who are not supposed to pay for their work network, have a separate free-of-cost household unit in the system that can be registered and released without taking a set of charges. Visitors may take a temporary account or pay a fee package.
There's a technical detail to be clear: no charge is like no log.. A lot of operators heard about it."Free.", and it's like this traffic system can just ignore. This is wrong. Even free flow, the authentication log, down-and-down log, access to IP records are kept.——Free is not a charge, but a charge. If you take free traffic out of the system, someone borrows free SSID to do bad things and never trace them back. The V7 log system and billing are separate, fee-free strategies simply do not generate cost records, and log links work as usual.
The most problematic thing in the actual project isUnpaid boundary mixed wrongFor example, the only way to avoid the in-school teaching system was to write it wrongly, put the entire public network into the wrong place, and users found that the bill was free of charge. And for example, the Intranet resources used domain names as white lists, but the domain name profile IPs were changed, students suddenly discovered that the choreography classes had started to cut traffic, and the next day the phone complained. So two things were done before the billing strategy went online: first, to list all the resources that should be free of charge, and to match the address sections one by one; second, to check regularly whether or not they have been altered, and cannot be finished.
There is a boundary to be drawn:Accurate flow billing and normal time-to-time count are two different things.V7 supports precision flow billing through NAC, meaning that money is calculated by the traffic actually generated by users; but it requires a gateway that accurately identifies where each connection belongs and does not include in-line broadcasting, broadcast, inter-equipment communication on user bills. The inner network tolls these flows off the gateway level and does not allow them to go to the costing engine for judgement. The closer they are to the access layer, the more accurate the calculation costs and the less wrong.
There's a commercial score to be made.The more extra resources you have, the smaller the toll pool, and your package will be adjusted accordingly.If you have free classes, libraries, video stations, and all the other things that you can charge for it, then you're going to be on the outside, watching videos, playing games."All traffic charges."Count it, or the user will feel"You're counting my colonel's inner net."The package is not sold. Conversely, if the Internet is free of charge, it's good for students.——He'd prefer to buy your outlet because he knew that the school resources were not expensive. This was a set-up.
And finally, the WiFi billing system."Which flows should be paid for?"It's never a technical bug, it's a strategic question. The online education resources, off-the-clock hours, and the special population should be drawn out in a fee-for-blank list; free is just no charge, logs and tubes cannot be loose; free borders are subject to a matching, periodic check; and price prices for the package take into account the free portion. Thinking about these rules makes users feel fair, not questioning you for withholding money.