Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 52, Issue 74

["carl gough [mobsource]" <carl () mobsource com>]

> 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 () cymru com>
> To: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
> Cc: "carl gough \[mobsource\]" <carl () mobsource com>, nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: trading bandwidth
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> 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