peering, derivatives, and big brother

Mon Dec 13 21:28:13 UTC 2010

Yeah, well, sorta. sorta not so much :)

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:28 PM, George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com> wrote:

> > The electricity spot market is close to your definition of
> > "perishable":
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market
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> > It has a derivative market, google for "electricity derivatives" will
> > give you some papers and models.
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> > I'm pretty sure electricity and bandwidth share some patterns.
> >
> > Now who wants to be the Enron of the bandwidth market? :)
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> Enron actually WAS dealing in bandwidth at one point:
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> http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/253861/Enron-Opens-Bandwidth
> -Commodity-Trading-Service.htm
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