The Allocation An amount of bandwidth available for your use. Depending on the type of service being offered through Merkato, this can represent the maximum bandwidth available to you or a minimum guarantee of bandwidth available to you. History graph displays three types of history for the agent The program that interacts with the rest of Merkato on behalf of buyers and sellers. Buyers can acquire bandwidth by configuring their agents to offer the price they are willing to pay for a range of available quantity, or use their agent to request a quote for a fixed-price bandwidth reservation. Sellers configure their agents with a quantity of bandwidth for sale and a minimum price they are willing to accept for that quantity.: measured traffic, allocation quantity received, and price paid:
At the top of the graph are three buttons.
Alloc Price: The price you have paid for bandwidth The amount of data transmitted or received per unit of time. When we refer to acquiring or selling bandwidth, we mean the amount of information that can be sent over a connection at one time, at the allowed speed, without packet loss or excessive delay. Bandwidth is measured in bits-per-second., in, for example, dollars-per-month per Mbps One of the ways of expressing units of bandwidth-Megabits-per-second (1,000,000 bits-per-second). unit (the units are configurable). When you click this button, the Y-axis of the graph shows these units.
Alloc Quantity: The amount of bandwidth you have been allocatated. When you click this button, the Y-axis of the graph scales to match this measurement.
Usage: The amount of your traffic that Merkato has measured. This measurement is used in Traffic-based and Quick Response bidding. When you click this button, the Y-axis of the graph scales to match this measurement.
The graph can be scaled to show greater or smaller time intervals. Inside the graph, right-click the mouse button. The time-scale choices appear:
Select a time from the list. The graph’s scale changes.