[13539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Mon Nov 10 15:15:48 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 15:42:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
cc: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971110123611.25319@Mars.Mcs.Net>
On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Frankly, this could be a *good* thing for the industry. Among other things
> large organizations have a habit and history of being unable to perceive
> and act on market-based changes quickly enough to capitalize on them.
>
> They tend to act like 900lb Gorillas instead, which is great if you're into
> slow, plodding things, and not so good if you aren't fast enough to get
> stepped on. But eventually, stepping on people draws the fire of people
> on the DOJ side of the fence.
I agree, I think this is a good thing for many NSPs. It is going to be a
HUGE job to combine UUNET, ANS, and Internet MCI. They have huge hardware
differences. ANS with the new BAY BCN hardware that they spent a large
time developing, MCI with their large Stratacom network, and UUNet with
their new Fore network. They all connect customers in a different way, it
will take some time to bring all of that together. There will be major
outages and problems associated with this merger. It will be a big change
for other backbone providers to come in a take some of their customers
base. It also will be easier to watch 1 big gorilla then 3 smaller ones.
-Nathan
