[AusNOG] AusNOG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 53

[Bevan Slattery]

Sorry Carl.  I think you are I are on slightly the different wavelength :)

The special notation included in the original posters line before is
"derivative".  Not normal product or service, but "bandwidth derivative
trading" i.e. derivative/futures contract in which you actually don't buy
and sell the product, but a derivation thereof.  Bandwidth deriviatives
markets (excluding basic future contracts) are generally the dream of
financial engineers all but snuffed out in 2001.

Bandwidth buy/sell exchanges are typically a market where people buy/sell
excess capacity, the prime product for their own use.  Not for some
derivation thereof.

Sorry if my response created some confusion.

Cheers

[b]

PS:  And yes I was jet lagged for the second time in my life at ITW :)


On 29/05/12 4:15 PM, "carl gough [mobsource]" <carl at mobsource.com> wrote:

>Bevan, You and ted must of been totally jetlagged at ITW. Did you not see
>the resurgence? Bandwidth Trading is not a new concept, but to make it
>work effectively it will have to address a couple of prerequisites to be
>successful. A network of buyers and sellers has to be created, contracted
>and connected for instant pricing, inventory management and delivery of a
>defined and standardised service. The market "is" now mature enough to
>offer such a service
>
>
>>Message: 10
>>Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 05:17:42 +0000
>>From: Bevan Slattery <Bevan.Slattery at nextdc.com>
>>To: Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>, Oliver Eyre
>>      <oliver.eyre at bigair.net.au>
>>Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
>>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] bandwidth trading
>>Message-ID: <CBEA98BD.31CE9%bevan.slattery at nextdc.com>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>>
>>> I look forward to bandwidth derivatives trading.
>>
>>Think Enron.  They did bandwidth trading (including derivatives inc.
>>mark-to-market) before their implosion.  Check out "Smartest Guys in the
>>Room".  Great doco.
>>
>>[b]
>>
>>
>
>



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