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To: TheStockFairy who wrote (3688)	8/15/2001 12:05:53 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 46821

Hi TSF, Just a brief note to say thanks a bunch for sharing your insights and experience. Many words of wisdom spoken, so to speak... Best, Ray :)

To: TheStockFairy who wrote (3688)	8/15/2001 2:17:48 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

TSF, you write very well with your mouth full. What a superb response. Looking at my watch, I think I'll make the necessary time to do it justice tomorrow or over the weekend. If I might just comment on your closer for now, you highlighted several salient points in that last paragraph: "Which pool do you want sir? We have a choice of several, [ii]do you have connectivity to these pools or [iii]do you have a metro carrier in your building that has the interconnections in place to get to your pooling point of choice? [iv] If you only have one carrier that can deliver your circuit, is he going to be the cheapest market solution?" Late last year, after months of mulling over the what-ifs and why-we-shouldn'ts, we had a weekend offsite meeting for the purpose of drawing up a strawman model for an exchange. The points you raised above were among the very same ones that we adjourned wondering about. Along with OSS/OAMP/Inventory/Electronic Bonding between carriers; the use of traditional sales agents as a starter strategy (as you also hinted, yesterday); a common control signaling and surveillance protocol similar to an SS/7 between optical nodes (now called control plane) for connection setup and supervision; UNI/GMPLS; and much more. I think we're looking at a brand new overlay that's going to prove to be quite an opportunity here. At least as I see it. More, later. ----- In the meantime, I thought that you and others here would be interested in the following from www.convergedigest.com, since we're talking bandwidth trading and liquidated damages. Are you familiar with Dorado's products? ----- Dorado Introduces Broadband Trading & Network Liquidity Software [ from www.convergedigest.com ] Dorado Software introduced an automated trading system for broadband and TDM network assets that reserves, schedules, delivers and monitors bandwidth connections and services in the bandwidth trading marketplace. Specifically, Redcell B-Trade provides a reservation system to translate traded bandwidth connections with specific counter parties, and at a set rate and quality to specific network routes. It also provides management of network resources, including optical switches and counter- party connections, against scheduled end-to-end connections to be delivered, ensuring deliverable paths and avoiding schedule conflicts. Dorado said the software could be used for real-time delivery of bandwidth connections. doradosoftware.com Dorado Software, August 14, 2001 Earlier this month, Enron Broadband selected Dorado Software to provide bandwidth trading software for its exchanges.