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Abstract
A new IP billing model has been developed by Xacct Technologies. The system, which can bill any IP service but may find its greatest use in the traditional voice market, takes data directly from routers or any network device and filters out information that is pertinent to billing. By catching data at the source, the system can correlate them based on several factors, including origination address, destination, application, effective quality of service, type of content, distance, bytes or product identification. The resulting record is similar to a telephony call detail record. For Internet service providers, the development could force a change of philosophy. Kenan Systems is moving toward an IP solution that incorporates similar parameters.