There always has to be some kind of AAA process happening to have the billing system apply customer rate-limits, where ever you choose to apply them. Whether the billing system uses an API to control and account for the networking plane, or RADIUS or some other kind of scripting, there is still some kind of AAA-type functionality occurring. So yes, to do that, Emerald uses RADIUS. We chose to use their RADIUS because the integration with Emerald is deep; that is, once it was setup installed, we've never had to actually touch the RADIUS server itself (except to restart it after updates) because its configuration is all handled within Emerald.

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On 12/23/19 6:38 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
I know IEA has been around for ages. But it requires a radius server. There’s still no way to make it work without one and still rate limit customers at the head end correct?

For me that’s a show stopper. 

On Dec 23, 2019, at 8:25 PM, Jesse DuPont <jesse.dup...@celeritycorp.net> wrote:

People will mock this, but you should look at Emerald. It isn't nearly as pretty as Sonar or Splynx, but it is very mature, extremely flexible and functional, and very fast. Support is super responsive and competent. It's also a great value; annual cost is about $1200 for support and licenses are one-time buy per active account. Even after having ours hosted in an Amazon XL compute VM, it's still very cost effective. Point in case: we switched away from one of the currently popular pay-per-sub ones and our annual cost went from $24K to about $6K and we lost zero functionality.
We're dual-stacked (v4/v6) and billing is fully integrated with RADIUS (either PPPoE or DHCP w/dual-stack queue on Mikrotik), including having currently-assigned v4 address and v6 prefix in billing (and a log of past assignments). When customers are behind on their bill, they get different RADIUS attributes, which shoves them behind our implementation of a hotel-style captive portal so they have a shot at seeing our "you haven't paid" landing page.
And FWIW, accounts on annual payment are truly annual, not 12 months.

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On 12/23/19 10:50 AM, Josh Luthman wrote:
One month is due but the invoices will print a full 12 months of charges.

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On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 6:37 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
It increments and only shows 1 month due

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 12:51 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
12 month prepay is exactly how you would do annual billing.  It works for me and a bunch of customers...

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On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 4:22 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
does freeside handle annual billing? Powercode has never had a clean way to do it other than 12mo prepay or something

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:13 AM dave via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote:
We still use freeside and now added preseem recently and seeing how well the mapping goes but we have integrated cacti as well into freeside so customers can see their actual usage.


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On 12/16/19 10:37 AM, Matt wrote:
Looking at outsourcing our database, ticketing and billing platform.
What is everyone using?


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