For Merkato Buyers
What is Merkato?
Buyers, Sellers, and Agents in the Auction Market
Spot Market and Reservation Market Agents
The Resource Agent
Planning For Your Bandwidth Needs
Automatic Remote Bidding
The Merkato Portal
Starting Merkato
Choice of Interface
Configuration Wizard
Desktop Interface
Buying Bandwidth on the Spot Market
Using the Desktop Agent
Downloading the Desktop Agent
Arranging Sub-Windows within the Agent Window
Connecting and Starting Your Agent
Select Bidding Units
Select a Valuation
Using Traffic-Based Bidding
Using Quick Response Bidding
Example of Quick Response Bidding
Using Quick Response Bidding
Select a Strategy
Viewing Your Allocations
If You Fail To Get an Allocation
Viewing Auction History and Current Data
Letting Your Agent Bid Without You (Uploading)
Saving Your Configuration
Exiting the Merkato Desktop
Using the Express Agent
Merkato Valuations
Buying Reserved Bandwidth
Strategy Overview
Reservation Agent
Merkato Auction Mechanism: The Progressive Second Price Auction
Optimizing Your Valuation Settings
Valuation Formulas
Valuation Summary Chart
Units Conversion Chart
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