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To: marc ultra who wrote (5272)	5/21/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Trebor	Respond to of 15132

Bandwidth becoming a commodity? Interesting tidbit from a newsletter I subscribe to: "One strange bit of news emerged from the oil sector. Energy company Enron is going to trade bandwidth, or communications capacity, as a commodity. Most companies now sign multiyear contracts with major telecommunications companies for access to a certain amount of bandwidth but Enron's plan is to let customers reserve Internet capacity, giving companies and other speculators the chance to trade bandwidth through a standard contract. The trading of bandwidth will change the industry by improving the provisioning and deployment of communications infrastructure. The first contract would provide for use of an Enron T-1 line, or digital transmission link, between New York and Los Angeles. The second is for capacity on a faster DS2 line, between Washington and California. It seems technology has no limits when traders are involved."