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

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

N3 = new network nodes, BIPP wasn't that great a name either.

The ASN was always 3561.

jy

On 12/08/2010, at 8:20 AM, Benson Schliesser <bensons () queuefull net> wrote:

> On 11 Aug 10, at 2:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Actually, Cable & Wireless acquired the BIPP after regulators forced Worldcom to divest one of their networks.  C&W 
> developed a new network architecture as an evolution of BIPP called "N3", based on MPLS as an ATM replacement for TE. 
>  (Perhaps somebody that worked at C&W back then can comment on N3; I can't recall what it stood for.)  After a few 
> years, C&W reorganized their American operations into a separate entity, which subsequently went bankrupt.  Savvis 
> (my current employer) bought the assets out of bankruptcy court.  We then upgraded the N3 network to support better 
> QoS, higher capacity, etc, and call it the "ATN" (Application Transport Network).  The current Savvis core network, 
> AS3561, is thus the evolved offspring of the MCI Internet Services / Internet-MCI network.
>
> Of course, before all of this, MCI built the network as a commercial Internet platform in parallel to their ARPA 
> network.  That's before my time, unfortunately, so I don't know many details.  For instance I'm uncertain how the ASN 
> has changed over the years.  Anybody with more history and/or corrections would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> -Benson