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

[William McCall <william.mccall () gmail com>]

VBNS is part of VzB.

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

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