ynot, now you are getting into an area known as bandwidth futures, and bordering on bandwidth derivatives, and yes this is the trend. Assuming you are referring to voice traffic, for example, the problem is obtaining the necessary feeds from the many disparate providers in order to draw logical conclusions, or should I say, predictions.
Much of this information can be found in the Intelligent Network data bases associated with SS7 functions and AIN, but those data records are secure, and they ostensibly belong to the carriers who pay for links to the individual 7 clouds. This raises many interesting questions concerning who "owns" the SS7 data, though, since SS7 is a shared resource [which I hope to further expand on at some point on the FCTF] and the individual SS7 providers have proprietary rights to their own "aggregate" infrastructure and route utilization (call setup and tear down) information.
A start in this direction is already underway in about a dozen broker desk operations, notably on Jeff Pulver's pulver.com's x-min.com, ratexchange.com, x-band.com, etc. A flurry of additional interest in this space came about recently, adding to the momentum, with the Forbes article concerning bandwidth.com
Regards, Frank Coluccio |
