BBN & history (was Re: New list Top 10 ISPs)

Tue Jun 12 16:12:46 UTC 2001

In message <Pine.GSO.4.31.0106121858460.13144-100000 at meron.openu.ac.il>, Rafi S
adowsky writes:

> Well - I think Genuity is the #1 ISP - since they use AS 1
>(They got AS1 when they bought(merged in ?) BBN )

Just for historical accuracy.

Genuity used to be a BBN-owned ISP named BBN Planet (thus AS 1).  BBN was
acquired by GTE.  When GTE and Bell Atlantic merged to create Verizon,
the ISP (but not the rest of BBN) was spun off as Genuity.

Craig Partridge
Chief Scientist
BBN Technologies (a Verizon company)