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Re: trading bandwidth

From: John Kristoff <jtk () cymru com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:46:08 -0500

On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:10:04 -0700
Owen DeLong <owen () 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

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