Enron EBS Media Cast Service animation

This animation explains the Enron EBS streaming media services offered via the EIN in 1999. It was a distributed server application on a dedicated non oversubscribed IP backbone that delivered tiers of quality of service as an application. It was "software as a service" before that term existed and allowed the user to pay per stream versus buy raw bandwidth and build their own application on a private network. It outperformed the Internet since it did not have congestion on the backbone the way that the Internet did. It did enable anyl content provider to offer tiers of quality as an application to their customers. The market for these customers changed when the crash of the tech stocks in April of 2000 occurred. That is when many of the targeted customers went out of business and telecom stocks crashed later in the year. The overbuild of the fiber backbones and loss of start ups in the Internet business caused the demand to take longer to develop and Enron went out of business in 2001. This service was used to deliver bandwidth on demand since the user picked the data rate of the video stream and larger streams used more bandwidth. It also was tiered quality of service at the application layer and was an application service not an IP service which all other companies sold at that time. It was available for live events which was bandwidth on demand and the billing was linked to the actual usage of the service which was user defined quality of service and billing information was collected automatically by the servers which was automated billing. This service had many customers and worked in 1999, all of 2000 and was abandoned in 2001 when Enron went bankrupt. The DOJ allowed these assets to be sold even though they would have proved the EIN did work or did not work. This was an application that used the network functionality that was defined as the BOS and the application was part of the functionality that was defined as the BOS.

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• Enron
• Media cast
• Streaming Media services
• QoS
• application services
• EBS
• ECI