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Stinson,
Let's bring up these two ideas at the meeting with John Bloomer (to discuss the other product ideas). Vince Steven Leppard 05/11/2000 08:38 AM To: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Re: Bandwidth++ Vince If it's new EBS products you're after, how about a real-time bandwidth swing contract with automatic exercise? The customer pays for the minimum (baseload) bandwidth they need for their (say) videoconference, with a premium on top that automatically buys them extra bandwidth as it becomes available from the system. They are guaranteed a minimum quality they can live with, and (more than likely) they get improved quality much of the time for a bargain price. We get to charge for the use of bandwidth that would otherwise be idle. Steve Vince J Kaminski 05/11/2000 02:09 PM To: Steven Leppard/LON/ECT@ECT cc: Stinson Gibner/HOU/ECT@ECT, Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: Bandwidth++ Steve, I think personally it's a great idea, though my son, who studies computer science, poured a bucket of icy water on me. Computers are becoming very cheap and most companies have already a lot of spare capacity on their systems. But we can always try. We shall take this idea, to the person in EBS responsible for the new products and ask him to talk directly to you to discuss the details. EBS is dying to come up with some new products. Vince Steven Leppard 05/11/2000 03:56 AM To: Vince J Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT, Stinson Gibner/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Subject: Bandwidth++ Vince, Stinson Have any investigations been made of the issue of trading (spare) processing power? Such a proposal would have natural synergies with the bandwidth business, since the jobs to be processed would need to be piped around, as would their results. Obvious technical and legal problems are: 1. Standardisation. (Java?) 2. Security and confidentiality. Just a thought that's been buzzing around my head for a while. Steve
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