BIPP was sold to C&W where it continued to use MCI transmission and facilities. In November 2000, C&W had rebuilt it on their own facilities (just a bit larger). Quite soon after the completion of the new network in 2000, C&W marketing was forecasting the need for a network that was ten times the size of their current backbone (the new network was four times the size of the original iMCI). C&W was chapter 7 within 12 months. BTW: C&W sued Worldcom and won a $250M settlement on the basis that MCI had hidden the iMCI sales and marketing team in the sale. The assets of C&W were sold to Savvis.
jy On 12/08/2010, at 5:10 AM, Chris Boyd <cb...@gizmopartners.com> 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. > > --Chris >
