[128542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Wed Aug 11 21:05:48 2010
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <06D9EF2B-8D2E-4F7F-995C-4D7D3831FF57@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:05:19 +1000
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
BIPP was sold to C&W where it continued to use MCI transmission and =
facilities. In November 2000, C&W had rebuilt it on their own =
facilities (just a bit larger). Quite soon after the completion of the =
new network in 2000, C&W marketing was forecasting the need for a =
network that was ten times the size of their current backbone (the new =
network was four times the size of the original iMCI). C&W was chapter =
7 within 12 months. BTW: C&W sued Worldcom and won a $250M settlement =
on the basis that MCI had hidden the iMCI sales and marketing team in =
the sale.=20
The assets of C&W were sold to Savvis.
jy
On 12/08/2010, at 5:10 AM, Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:13 PM, John Lee wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> --Chris
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