mattmamo
01-22-08, 11:35 PM
Hi
We are a company that has for its own use a high bandwidth connection to all our desktops via cisco routers and firewalls and a combination of wired ethernet and wireless airports.
Part of our business is to hire serviced offices on a long or short term basis, and we have been offering access to our Internet access as part of this service. This is done on a very secure basis, its just internet access we are providing. We do this to try to recover some of the cost of getting the service delivered to us.
However managing the number of clients we now have is getting complicated and just charging a flat fee (as we have been doing) is not working for us.
What do I need to do to be able to set up a small-scale low cost ISP service? I'd like to be able to offer a few simple "plans" but to do this I need to be able to at least measure uploads and downloads and possibly limit these in some cases. I need to be able to provide clients with a record of their internet access if requested. I need a reporting and invoicing solution.
I am a manager, not an IT professional, although I am reasonably savvy in the field. I need to be able to make sensible requests and recommendations to IT department to help me set this up, and to know costs.
Where do I start?
We are a company that has for its own use a high bandwidth connection to all our desktops via cisco routers and firewalls and a combination of wired ethernet and wireless airports.
Part of our business is to hire serviced offices on a long or short term basis, and we have been offering access to our Internet access as part of this service. This is done on a very secure basis, its just internet access we are providing. We do this to try to recover some of the cost of getting the service delivered to us.
However managing the number of clients we now have is getting complicated and just charging a flat fee (as we have been doing) is not working for us.
What do I need to do to be able to set up a small-scale low cost ISP service? I'd like to be able to offer a few simple "plans" but to do this I need to be able to at least measure uploads and downloads and possibly limit these in some cases. I need to be able to provide clients with a record of their internet access if requested. I need a reporting and invoicing solution.
I am a manager, not an IT professional, although I am reasonably savvy in the field. I need to be able to make sensible requests and recommendations to IT department to help me set this up, and to know costs.
Where do I start?