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 e

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 Message-ID: <20120529194608.74e83eb6@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:10:04 -0700 Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:

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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