I remember 5 years ago a company called Invisible Hand Networks that tried something like that.
Cheers Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Laurent GUERBY [mailto:laur...@guerby.net] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 3:07 PM To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: peering, derivatives, and big brother On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 19:36 -0800, George Bonser wrote: > (...) The financial derivatives market isn't, in my opinion, a good > analogy of the peering market. A data packet is "perishable" and must > be moved quickly. The destination network wants the packet in order > to keep their customer happy and the originating network wants to get > it to that customer as quickly and cheaply as possible. The > proliferation of these peering points means that today there is more > traffic going directly from content network to eyeball network. To > use a different analogy, it is almost like the market is going to a > series of farmer's markets rather than supermarkets in the > distribution channel. Sure, there are still the "supermarkets" out > there, but increasingly they are selling their "store brand" by > becoming content hosting networks themselves. (...) Hi, 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? :) Sincerely, Laurent http://guerby.org/blog
