VBNS is part of VzB. On 8/11/10, Marshall Eubanks <t...@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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