This company is way too big. I am not particularly versed in exactly how everything went down when the acquisition went through, but I do know I worked for UUNET a while back and now I work for WorldCom. The part of WorldCom that used to be called UUNET is in fact a huge money maker and I believe one of our best assetts. I would love to go back to being UUNET and not have anything to do with everything else that makes up WorldCom!
>>>Brian >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Off Topic - Cisco vis a vis World Com [7:47505] >Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 05:07:09 GMT > >Over here in South Africa, UUNET is claiming that they were not reliant on >Worldcom for any financing, and that they (UUNET South Africa) have been >profitable for the last 9 years or so and are still in the process of >expanding... WorldCom's problems don't affect them ... Or so they say. Plus >all of UUNET's Advertising still claims "Cisco Powered Network" > >UUNET, a truly good company from my experience with them. > >Thanks >Manish > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian Lodwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 05 July 2002 18:47 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Off Topic - Cisco vis a vis World Com [7:47505] > > >Don't confuse UUNet with WCOMs data networking division? UUNet is >WorldCom, WorldCom is UUNet. All one big happy family right? A while back >WorldCom finally stiff armed all UUNet people to fully integrate. Even to >the point where you were not allowed to have your signature say UUNet on it >it had to say WorldCom (and basically I think that was the day we lost >control of the rudder and started heading towards that iceburg). WorldCom >is > >Compuserve, UUNet, MFS, ANS, Rythms, and alot of others. > I think this string is pretty silly. As if a carrier as big as WorldCom >would be an all this or an all that shop. WorldCom is so huge there is no >way you could catagorize it as a _______ shop. What Cisco router are you >going to use to run DDCMP? We've got an entire network that runs a modified >version of X.25 and the line protocol is called DDCMP. We've got like a >bazillion routers out there (almost 30 billion ;-) and we've acquired like >a > >bazillion different companies over the years. I see Junipers, Nortels, >Lucents, Bays, Fujitsus, 3Coms, and a whole lotta Ciscos. >I don't think the first guy can start counting his chickens right yet. I >don't have any unrealistic ideas on what will happen to WorldCom, but even >if banruptcy occurs I don't think we will just shut our doors and go home >especially our backbone and managed data services. (Don't get me wrong >though I'm definitely worried and am studying like a madman for my lab in >August, and getting my resume out) > I think it's terrible that something like this has happening to UUNet. >UUNet was such a great company. An awesome backbone. We are one of the only >backbones big enough and have enough traffic management charachteristics to >be able to offer awesome SLA's from site to site through the internet. So >many cool research projects going on for instance we have a multicast >backbone, and an IPV6 backbone. All kinds of neat stuff. I've never learned >so much. I think we are seeing the furthering of this industry coming to a >screeching halt. My catch phrase is we might not do everything right here >and might be a little screwed up here and there, but we are definitely the >least screwed up ISP out there. > This industry in my opinion is just asking for a replay of the auto >industry a few years back. Japan comes in, takes this place, clips off all >the fat, adds in alot of quality assurance teams and completely dominates >the market. > Ok I'm done, I'm sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now since that security >guard down the hall is saying I am tresspassing since this building is no >longer owned by WorldCom -kidding ;-) > > >>>Brian > > > >From: "deltan" > >Reply-To: "deltan" > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Off Topic - Cisco vis a vis World Com [7:47505] > >Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 03:48:57 GMT > > > >UUNet is a Cisco shop for sure (Canada and US). > > > >And don't confuse WCOM's data networking division with > >UUNet (WCOM's subsidiary in Internetworking). > > > >Those students might be talking about the data > >networking side....true or false, I don't know. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=48351&t=47505 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
