Tomorrow's traders

摘要

Bandwidth brokering is like the crazy uncle that everyone loves to talk about, but nobody wants to deal with. It's sexy, bringing the aura of Wall Street trading floors and Gordon Gekko types barking buy and sell orders to the mundane task of filling network capacity; it's in tune with the idea that telecom is deregulated and the supply of bandwidth is driving it toward commodity status; and it has precedent in the energy and gas markets, where spot markets allow utilities to manage risk and speculate on price fluctuations.