Do you know how your data plan gets billed by them telcos? Yes, them. What about a shared (family) plan? How can one use existing kernel features to build a robust billing and service platform? Vikram Siwach will describe the challenges faced in getting Linux on commodity hardware[1] and kernel changes made to make all this work. https://www.netdevconf.org/0x12/session.html?subscriber-billing-system-over-... cheers, jamal [1] it is called commodity because telcos like to buy these boxes from big vendors. The box was so commodity it had a Mellanox connectx3 on it!