(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host PEER 1 Network Enterprises (www.peer1.com) has collaborated with high-speed network traffic monitoring solution provider InMon (www.inmon.com) to provide precise bandwidth measurement and analysis capability for PEER 1 customers.
According to its Wednesday announcement, PEER 1 will deploy InMon’s network monitoring technology, sFlow (www.sflow.org), and InMon’s Traffic Sentinel in all its data centers to provide a leading-edge bandwidth billing solution for its managed hosting customers. PEER 1 customers can access the InMon-powered network traffic monitoring and analysis in real time through the online customer portal with customizable graphs and downloadable data.
“We believe our customers should only pay for the services they use and our collaboration with InMon maximizes our network analysis and measurement capability allowing us to accurately pass on lowest cost bandwidth charges to customers,” PEER 1 operations senior vice president Ted Smith said in a statement. “Our IP-based or layer three approach not only increases transparency and billing accuracy, it also enables our customers to accurately re-charge bandwidth usage to their own customers.”
Bandwidth usage is measured on a per-IP address basis, so PEER 1 is able to ignore traffic occurring inside the data center, and provide precise traffic charges to its customers in a way that is not possible through per-port or physical-layer network traffic monitoring.
InMon president Peter Phaal said the scalability of InMon’s sFlow solution makes it the ideal choice for monitoring the fastest of data center networks,” said. “In the expert hands of the PEER 1 engineers, the detailed traffic database in the Sentinel product can be applied to a wide range of applications, from accounting and capacity planning to troubleshooting and security.”
