Does anyone have any intel on bandwidth trading in the usa?
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Mr Karl:
We use number of these service to improve delivery of our content to end users.
Which service or services do you seek info for?
Sincerely,
Nabil
Thanks Nabil, Bandwidth Trading is not a new concept, but to make it
work effectively it will have to address a couple of prerequisites to be
successful. A network of buyers and sellers has to be created, contracted
and connected for instant pricing, inventory management and delivery of a
defined and standardised service. Not a la enron of course, they traded
derivatives.
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IIRC, the concept was first introduced by MCI and Enron to great fanfare
and subsequent graphic demonstrations of the destructive power of
unregulated markets controlled by people of limited moral fortitude.
Owen
If you ever want a run down on how Enron did it (or didn't do it), there are
several on this list who can tell you all about it.
Doesn't Arbinet have some sort of trading system like this currently?
Carlos Alcantar
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Not ALL of us were of limited moral fortitude! 
I still think the concept was fundamentally sound, and I certainly meant well, but I was in a position of very little power so what I said generally didn't carry a lot of weight in that environment.
-b
I thought those big organizations actually came in later. Here is an
article discussing Band-X, which was one of at least two as I recall
that predated some of some of those more well known, later entrants:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/11772/
John
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