N3 = new network nodes, BIPP wasn't that great a name either. The ASN was always 3561.
jy On 12/08/2010, at 8:20 AM, Benson Schliesser <bens...@queuefull.net> wrote: > > On 11 Aug 10, at 2:10 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: > >> 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. > > Actually, Cable & Wireless acquired the BIPP after regulators forced Worldcom > to divest one of their networks. C&W developed a new network architecture as > an evolution of BIPP called "N3", based on MPLS as an ATM replacement for TE. > (Perhaps somebody that worked at C&W back then can comment on N3; I can't > recall what it stood for.) After a few years, C&W reorganized their American > operations into a separate entity, which subsequently went bankrupt. Savvis > (my current employer) bought the assets out of bankruptcy court. We then > upgraded the N3 network to support better QoS, higher capacity, etc, and call > it the "ATN" (Application Transport Network). The current Savvis core > network, AS3561, is thus the evolved offspring of the MCI Internet Services / > Internet-MCI network. > > Of course, before all of this, MCI built the network as a commercial Internet > platform in parallel to their ARPA network. That's before my time, > unfortunately, so I don't know many details. For instance I'm uncertain how > the ASN has changed over the years. Anybody with more history and/or > corrections would be appreciated. > > Cheers, > -Benson > > >
