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Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History
From: Randy Whitney <randy.whitney () verizonbusiness com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:28:21 -0400
On 8/11/2010 3:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:13 PM, John Lee wrote: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.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. 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. --Chris
Correct order of (in)digestion UUNet > MFS > Worldcom >< MCI > Verizon. There were other multi-way acquisitions in-between as well (CNS, ANS, etc.) -Randy.
Current thread:
- RE: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History John Lee (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Chris Boyd (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Randy Whitney (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Marshall Eubanks (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History William McCall (Aug 12)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Randy Whitney (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Robert E. Seastrom (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Benson Schliesser (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Jeffrey S. Young (Aug 12)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Jeffrey S. Young (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History jim deleskie (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Jeffrey S. Young (Aug 12)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Chris Boyd (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History Jeffrey S. Young (Aug 11)
- Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History deleskie (Aug 11)