Re: off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History

["Jeffrey S. Young" <young () jsyoung net>]

BIPP was sold to C&W where it continued to use MCI transmission and facilities.  In November 2000, C&W had rebuilt it 
on their own facilities (just a bit larger).  Quite soon after the completion of the new network in 2000, C&W marketing 
was forecasting the need for a network that was ten times the size of their current backbone (the new network was four 
times the size of the original iMCI).  C&W was chapter 7 within 12 months.  BTW:  C&W sued Worldcom and won a $250M 
settlement on the basis that MCI had hidden the iMCI sales and marketing team in the sale. 
  The assets of C&W were sold to Savvis.

jy

On 12/08/2010, at 5:10 AM, Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com> 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