[128521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Wed Aug 11 15:10:21 2010
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:10:05 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Cc: Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
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On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:13 PM, John Lee wrote:
> MCI bought MFS-Datanet because MCI had the customers and MFS-Datanet =
had all of the fiber running to key locations at the time and could =
drastically cut MCI's costs. UUNET "merged" with MCI and their traffic =
was put on this same network. MCI went belly up and Verizon bought the =
network.
Although not directly involved in the MCI Internet operations, I read =
all the announcements that came across the email when I worked at MCI =
from early 1993 to late 1998.
My recollection is that Worldcom bought out MFS. UUnet was a later =
acquisition by the Worldcom monster (no, no biases here :-). While this =
was going on MCI was building and running what was called the BIPP =
(Basic IP Platform) internally. That product was at least reasonably =
successful, enough so that some gummint powers that be required =
divestiture of the BIPP from the company that would come out of the =
proposed acquisition of MCI by Worldcom. The regulators felt that =
Worldcom would have too large a share of the North American Internet =
traffic. The BIPP went with BT IIRC, and I think finally landed in =
Global Crossing's assets.
--Chris=
