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Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother


From: Dorn Hetzel <dhetzel () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:28:13 -0500

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

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

The electricity spot market is close to your definition of
"perishable":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_market

It has a derivative market, google for "electricity derivatives" will
give you some papers and models.

I'm pretty sure electricity and bandwidth share some patterns.

Now who wants to be the Enron of the bandwidth market? :)



Enron actually WAS dealing in bandwidth at one point:

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/253861/Enron-Opens-Bandwidth
-Commodity-Trading-Service.htm






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