Some services, like Speakeasy Networks in Seattle, impose no charge for excess bandwidth at the Web sites they host.
Through Enron's Pooling Point Operators -- where ties between bandwidth buyers and sellers will be established and monitored -- a school with excess bandwidth capacity during the summer will be able to sell its surplus to a company with rising bandwidth demand.
The Virata Corporation, which sells semiconductors and software to makers of digital subscriber line equipment, said it agreed to buy the closely held Excess Bandwidth Corporation of Cupertino, Calif., for about $315 million in stock.
They integrate with desktop apps, use excess bandwidth, idle power.
They can then sell "excess" bandwidth to companies such as Boingo, which in turn will resell access to its customers.
However, the success of this new software paradigm is based on one assumption: high-speed Internet connectivity and excess bandwidth.
The issue of fair sharing of excess bandwidth is also not well solved.
And universities can take advantage of their excess bandwidth and use it to help distribute content and software they support.
Provided that there is some excess bandwidth, the symbol rate feature will exist, whatever the modulation.
In the case of FMT, to keep subcarrier bands nonoverlapping, an excess bandwidth of % is allowed.
