Merkato’s Charge Reports feature lets you see details about bandwidth The amount of data transmitted or received per unit of time. When we refer to acquiring or selling bandwidth, we mean the amount of information that can be sent over a connection at one time, at the allowed speed, without packet loss or excessive delay. Bandwidth is measured in bits-per-second. allocations you have made. The reports it generates provide all the details about each allocation An amount of bandwidth available for your use. Depending on the type of service being offered through Merkato, this can represent the maximum bandwidth available to you or a minimum guarantee of bandwidth available to you. but they are also summarized.
Below is an example of a charge report for one day:
The following fields appear in the Charge Reports screen:
From (mm/dd/yyyy): Enter the date you want the charge report to begin on.
To (mm/dd/yyyy): Enter the date you want the charge report to end on.
Resource The bandwidth service that is offered through a single Merkato marketplace. It will have service attributes, an available quantity earmarked for it by the NSP, and a market mechanism for distributing bandwidth (either the spot market The Merkato mechanism by which bandwidth is traded, in a progressive second price auction. An optimal fair market price is established and bandwidth is allocated to buyers, based on their bids relative to other buyers. or reservation market The Merkato market mechanism by which a specified quantity of bandwidth, for a specific duration, is sold for a firm price specified by the seller and agreed to by the buyer. This is an automated process based on a rate sheet that the seller establishes in advance. ).: (optional) Enter the resource (from whom you have received allocations) whose charges to you will appear in the report.
Ordered By Day: A report ordered by day lists charge information from all resources separated by each day.
Ordered By Resource: A report ordered by resource lists charge information from each individually. If you select Detailed, within the listing for each resource, charges are ordered by day.
Summary: All charges are grouped and totaled.
Detailed: Charges are displayed separately by individually.
Rather than enter start and end dates manually, you can
click on the small calendar icon (
) to the right of the
field. A pop-up calendar appears from which you can select your start
and end dates.
Similarly, when you click the pie-chart icon, a list box appears from which you can select a resource on which to do billing queries.
For example, if you select Ordered by Day and Summary and click Generate Report the view looks like this:
If you select Ordered by Resource and Detailed and click Generate Report, the view looks like this:
