[13542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI Accepts Worldcom's Bid? ; charset=us-ascii
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Carter)
Mon Nov 10 16:03:38 1997
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:56:04 -0700
From: Steve Carter <steve@lynx.genuity.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
Pessimist Nathan? I seems to me that it would be out of character for
Worldcom to integrate MCI. They didn't with MFS, ANS or UUNet. Different
market targets?
-Steve.
