Information About Usage-Based Billing; Feature Overview - Cisco cBR-8 Configuration And Troubleshooting Manual

Information About Usage-based Billing

• When configuring cable metering in the usage-based billing File Mode, the source-interface cannot be
Note This cable metering restriction will not be a problem during reload.
• When configuring cable metering in the usage-based billing Streaming Mode, make sure that the loopback
Information About Usage-based Billing

Feature Overview

The Usage-based Billing feature provides a standards-based, open application approach to recording and
retrieving traffic billing information for DOCSIS networks. When enabled, this feature provides the following
billing information about the cable modems and customer premises equipment (CPE) devices that are using
the cable network:
• IP and MAC addresses of the cable modem.
• Service flows being used (both upstream and downstream service flows are tracked).
• IP addresses for the CPE devices that are using the cable modem.
• Total number of octets and packets received by the cable modem (downstream) or transmitted by the
• Total number of downstream packets for the cable modem that the CMTS dropped or delayed because
Billing records are maintained in a standardized text format that the service provider can easily integrate into
their existing billing applications. Service providers can use this information to determine which users might
be potential customers for service upgrades, as well as those customers that might be trying to exceed their
SLA limits on a regular basis.
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and SNMP MIB counters cannot be preserved during reloads. These counters are 64-bit values and could
roll over to zero during periods of heavy usage.
specified immediately after using the cable metering filesystem command. Once the cable metering
filesystem command is used, the cable metering file will write to the bootflash. Until this operation is
complete, no cable metering configuration will be allowed. After the file write operation is complete,
the source-interface command (cable metering source-interface) can then be configured; and the metering
file in the bootflash would need to be removed so that billing packets have the source-interface's IP
address.
interface is accessible from the collector server. Telnetting to the IP address of the loopback interface
from the collector server is a good method of testing whether the loopback interface is accessible from
the collector server or not.
cable modem (upstream) during the collection period.
they would have exceeded the bandwidth levels allowed by the subscriber's service level agreement
(SLA).
Usage-Based Billing (SAMIS)