-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199707311240.NAA00742@server.test.net>, on 07/31/97 at 01:40 PM, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> said:
Then I can have some net cash savings backed by the rights to 1Tb of bandwidth at 100 Mb/sec. 100 Mb/sec for 3 days.
A problem with this is that the market prices of the assets is continually dropping. How do I hedge against this. Can I buy futures? Sell 100 Mb/sec for 3 days now in exchange for 200 Mb/sec for 3 days in 1 years time at an predicted equivalent value?
Well I see some problems with this. Any increase in bandwith requires the addition of hardware to accomplish it. It would be of little use to me to have 100 Mb/sec for 3days considering the cost of installing the lines and purchacing the extra equipment. Also in a packet switching environment how do you plan on insuring any amount of bandwith? The Backbone is not set-up for this. The only way in the current enviorment that you can guarantee a given bandwith is by having a dedicated connection point to point. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM+CAbY9Co1n+aLhhAQFocgQAiJTcSODpb2ETLqB1VlWyyUI+/g3dx/uI KMMbcqQu9D+/a6YF56b6W+LOrhO1D9P3UyNHG+0aTKXa6bQjVFH3ghVEo6D71kRR AHeH6M+ipj1tvN/LjH/3TK9kB+rgVfLlfZvH61Iyby/A9yvyKn6xoWx30SEidRuT k5Es3jxNh7g= =L/du -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----