NANOG Digest, Vol 52, Issue 74

Wed May 30 03:29:24 UTC 2012

>John, I think we have cross wires, without meaning to advertise or tout
>for business, the bandx solution and the enron solutions totally missed
>the mark in terms of timing.

Every revolution, wether electricity, steam, automotive or telecoms, goes
through a boom, then a bust, then a golden age period that emerges where
it matures, we are in  a maturity period now of IT. The names above, came
at a time when the boom and subsequent bust occurred, they were not around
for the golden age - fast forward to now, over a decade later since bandx,
and you have the pieces of the puzzle that can be re assembled using the
right technology. We don¹t differentiate using technology anymore, we get
creative with the way we use iT.

70% of the worlds capacity is unlit, untouched, and creating no value
whatsoever - 

http://mobsource.tumblr.com/post/22890631023/bandwidth-trading-platform-liv
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>Message: 7
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:46:08 -0500
>From: John Kristoff <jtk at cymru.com>
>To: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
>Cc: "carl gough \[mobsource\]" <carl at mobsource.com>, nanog at nanog.org
>Subject: Re: trading bandwidth
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>On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:10:04 -0700
>Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>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
>
>