[128551] 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 03:18:23 2010
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <2594B329-0822-4933-9D61-F14979ABC502@queuefull.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:18:03 +1000
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@umn.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
N3 =3D new network nodes, BIPP wasn't that great a name either.
The ASN was always 3561.
jy
On 12/08/2010, at 8:20 AM, Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net> =
wrote:
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> On 11 Aug 10, at 2:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
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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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> Actually, Cable & Wireless acquired the BIPP after regulators forced =
Worldcom to divest one of their networks. C&W developed a new network =
architecture as an evolution of BIPP called "N3", based on MPLS as an =
ATM replacement for TE. (Perhaps somebody that worked at C&W back then =
can comment on N3; I can't recall what it stood for.) After a few =
years, C&W reorganized their American operations into a separate entity, =
which subsequently went bankrupt. Savvis (my current employer) bought =
the assets out of bankruptcy court. We then upgraded the N3 network to =
support better QoS, higher capacity, etc, and call it the "ATN" =
(Application Transport Network). The current Savvis core network, =
AS3561, is thus the evolved offspring of the MCI Internet Services / =
Internet-MCI network.
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> Of course, before all of this, MCI built the network as a commercial =
Internet platform in parallel to their ARPA network. That's before my =
time, unfortunately, so I don't know many details. For instance I'm =
uncertain how the ASN has changed over the years. Anybody with more =
history and/or corrections would be appreciated.
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> Cheers,
> -Benson
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