off-topic: summary on Internet traffic growth History

Thu Aug 12 14:09:28 UTC 2010

VBNS is part of VzB.

On 8/11/10, Marshall Eubanks <tme at americafree.tv> wrote:
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> On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Randy Whitney wrote:
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>> On 8/11/2010 3:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote:
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>>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:13 PM, John Lee wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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> What happened to VBNS in all of this ?
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> Marshall
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>>> --Chris
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>> Correct order of (in)digestion UUNet > MFS > Worldcom >< MCI > Verizon.
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>> There were other multi-way acquisitions in-between as well (CNS, ANS,
>> etc.)
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>> -Randy.
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