stanford project forwarded stinson gibner hou ect 01 03 2001 08 54 stinson gibner 12 27 2000 05 04 pm nick bambos enron cc subject stanford project nick hope nice christmas best wishes new year would certainly great see meet eric time next months everyone impressed giuseppe eager another students come enron enron broadband continuing evolve current vision rely enron trading expertise trying minimize role engineering company innovator technology spoke recently jim fallon current head trader ebs put together short list topics interest might able help educate us put order interest mr fallon 1 bandwidth prices go direction prices obviously concern trader realize technological innovation continue drive prices still interested trying quantify fast prices fall likely certain bottlenecks fiber network could see prices stable rising length time applications horizon would use prodigious amounts bandwidth effect pricing rational way trying quantify timing effect prices new technologies term bandwidth might primarily mean lit fiberoptic capacity could also incompass dark fiber ip transit transport pricing 2 last year enron purchased company known warpspeed order acquire metarouter technology quote enron press release metarouter sends signals throughout distributed networks determine optimal connectivity paths size bandwidth capacity anywhere world capable processing thousands connections per second metarouter significantly enhances enron ability automate circuit provisioning may two separate questions ask first context current market market may develop next 1 2 years metarouter commercially viable product address actual need market would cost effective use technicians jumper cables provision circuits second question first real technical question metarouter technology scalable starting project vince need make proper introductions principles implementing technology 3 aggregation loads recurring question comes number areas ip network storage streaming media transport sales value get form aggregating customers type stochastic load profile giuseppe touched problem relates ip transport may interesting try look detail main stumbling block may currently basically actual customer data told months useful history understanding available 5 minute averages usage still know short time scale distribution load looks like hope gives enough information get idea concerns point please let know thoughts topics would expect instance question number 1 may reasonable research project might question would feel comfortable addressing giving us qualitative opinions maybe form talk enron let know thoughts look forward seeing soon stinson nick bambos 12 20 2000 12 14 40 pm vince j kaminski enron com cc stinson gibner enron com subject stanford project hello vince stinson first best wishes happy holidays stanford area holidays let get together time dinner formally established project thanks funding also recruited second phd student name eric cope top notch student mature entrepreneurial started working interesting problems area would hope eric could spend coming summer enron get immersed problem opportunity generation environment really helps student develop realistic vision research perhaps whole team could visit enron time next quarter say march discuss research issues pursuing course could visit us warmest wishes nick