To download an agent The program that interacts with the rest of Merkato on behalf of buyers and sellers. Buyers can acquire 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. 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., follow these steps:
1. In the Agent Download window, enter the username and password.
By default, this is the same as the username and password you used to access the Desktop interface from the initial login; the fields are populated with this information. You may specify another valid username and password to download another agent.
If the Agent Download window is not available, from the File pull-down menu, select “Download Agent.”
The Download Agent window appears.
2. If there are Garage A server from which buyer and seller agents can bid when they are not actively bidding on a user's PC desktop. The garage is generally installed on the Merkato server, providing maximum performance and reliability. choices on a pull-down list that indicates both spot and reservation marketplaces, select the reservation garage and click Download.
If you have a single choice in the Garage field, your Merkato InvisibleHand's software platform, which dynamically prices, sells, and allocates IP bandwidth in real time. Merkato means "market" in Esperanto. administrator will have given you two distinct usernames and passwords—one for each market. In this case, make sure that the username and password correspond to the reservation market The Merkato market mechanism by which a specified quantity of bandwidth, for a specific duration, is sold for a firm price specified by the seller and agreed to by the buyer. This is an automated process based on a rate sheet that the seller establishes in advance. and click Download.
The Agent window appears. This is the Agent interface through which you make your reservation.
