[128543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim deleskie)
Wed Aug 11 22:12:25 2010
In-Reply-To: <06D9EF2B-8D2E-4F7F-995C-4D7D3831FF57@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:12:14 -0300
From: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
To: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
CIP went with BT (Concert) I still clearly remember the very long
concall when we separated it from it BIPP connections. :)
-jim
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, 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 drasticall=
y cut MCI's costs. UUNET "merged" with MCI and their traffic was put on thi=
s 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 ear=
ly 1993 to late 1998.
>
> My recollection is that Worldcom bought out MFS. =A0UUnet was a later acq=
uisition by the Worldcom monster (no, no biases here :-). =A0While this was=
going on MCI was building and running what was called the BIPP (Basic IP P=
latform) internally. =A0That product was at least reasonably successful, en=
ough so that some gummint powers that be required divestiture of the BIPP f=
rom the company that would come out of the proposed acquisition of MCI by W=
orldcom. =A0The regulators felt that Worldcom would have too large a share =
of the North American Internet traffic. =A0The BIPP went with BT IIRC, and =
I think finally landed in Global Crossing's assets.
>
> --Chris
>
