[128550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Thu Aug 12 03:08:07 2010
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin6ocAEAq6-vmgVkXtHE5EOoFoSfn+y0cfF4pmq@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:07:54 +1000
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
MCI and BT had a long courtship. BT left MCI standing at the altar =
after neighborhoodMCI (a consumer last mile play) announced $400M in =
losses, twice. WorldCom swooped in after that.
jy
On 12/08/2010, at 12:12 PM, jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com> wrote:
> CIP went with BT (Concert) I still clearly remember the very long
> concall when we separated it from it BIPP connections. :)
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> -jim
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> 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 =
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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