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. > > >