[128528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Aug 11 16:24:28 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <4C62F9D5.4090309@verizonbusiness.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:24:18 -0400
To: Randy Whitney <randy.whitney@verizonbusiness.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Randy Whitney wrote:
> 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.
What happened to VBNS in all of this ?
Marshall
>>
>> --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.
>
>
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