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

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

MCI and BT had a long courtship.  BT left MCI standing at the altar after neighborhoodMCI (a consumer last mile play) 
announced $400M in losses, twice.  WorldCom swooped in after that.

jy

On 12/08/2010, at 12:12 PM, jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com> wrote:

> CIP went with BT (Concert) I still clearly remember the very long
> concall when we separated it from it BIPP connections. :)
>
> -jim
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:10 PM, 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