[128523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Whitney)
Wed Aug 11 15:29:00 2010
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:28:21 -0400
From: Randy Whitney <randy.whitney@verizonbusiness.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-reply-to: <06D9EF2B-8D2E-4F7F-995C-4D7D3831FF57@gizmopartners.com>
Cc: Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/11/2010 3:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
> 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
Correct order of (in)digestion UUNet > MFS > Worldcom >< MCI > Verizon.
There were other multi-way acquisitions in-between as well (CNS, ANS, etc.)
-Randy.
