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Re: GTE to acquire BBN
by Chris Steinke 07 May '97

07 May '97

As a long time customer of GTE for both personal and business services I really feel sorry for BBN and it's customers. Hopefully BBN will not let GTE get too involved with BBN's operations. GTE has got to be the worst telco in the world. Their service is horrific, their billing is a mess, and I have serious doubts about the competence of their technicians. I can't tell you how many times they have screwed up a simple frame relay installation or even plain old telephone services! There completely clueless! -- Chris Steinke Systems Engineer Cinenet Communications ____/| cjs(a)cinenet.net \o.0 | Oop ACK Ptpthptpt =(_)= U

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Re: GTE to acquire BBN
by Selina F. Priestley 07 May '97

07 May '97

> Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > You sir, have not dealt with NYNEX. They are not only stupid, but > > extremely rude. Where else do you have to beg for dialtone? How many MFS > > T1 lines can be *whoops* installed wrong the first three times? They are > > evil, evil, evil, and I will leave the ISP business if they ever buy a > > national ISP. Blech. > > you're being awfully mild about nynex. > > nynex is without question the worst local telco in the > known universe. > > words cannot begin to describe the awfulness of > that company. > > cheers, > richard But if you want to see a noble attempt, please see http://www.nynexsucks.com/ Selina

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BGP communities and customers
by Jeremy Hinton 07 May '97

07 May '97

An interesting side issue to the UUNet peering discussions is the capability/willingness of providers to create complex BGP policies based on the wants or needs of their individual customers. What if a customer requested their routes not be transmitted beyond your network (save your customers), in essence a private peering of the sort this list is discussing. Or perhaps more complex cases, where they want it sent to some of your peers, but not others (for AUP or other reasons). How about on a route by route basis, if they want some routes to follow one policy and some another? With creative community use, id imagine most of these scenarios could likely be implemented with a minimum of difficulty. I'm just wondering if many providers are seeing/doing this already, as systems like this could seem to give the end customer quite a bit more control of not only how outcoming traffic flows, but incoming as well (quite possibly at the price of some redundency). Are many providers negotiable to creating and accepting communities from downstream customers? - jeremy // Jeremy Hinton Visionary Systems, Inc. // jgh(a)visi.net http://www.visi.net // Network Operations Newport News, VA // A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men

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Multicast
by Aleph One 07 May '97

07 May '97

Morning all. I was wonderign if anyone could comment on how deployed is multicast routing in real-world networks. How many of you have enabled multicast routing in your core routers? Do you offer this as a service to your customers? If no, why not? Do you plan to? The problem with IP multicasting is that is not usefull unless everyone is usinging it. I'am wondering when we will start seeing it in use. New products are starting to support multicast (new CUSeeMe, etc) but the infrastructure doesnt seem to be there. Aleph One / aleph1(a)dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01

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Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?
by Bill Unsworth 07 May '97

07 May '97

In the past the bandwidth of peering connections has been high - 10Mbs or 100Mbs - although of course the switching may have had problems at some NAPs. With transit you pay by bandwidth so all these interconnect bandwidth are likely to be minimised rather than "optimised". Bill U-NET Ltd "Easy Internet Access" mailto:bill@u-net.net http://www.u-net.net/ Tel 01925 484444 Fax 01925 484466

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Coincidence...
by Robert E. Seastrom 07 May '97

07 May '97

When Sprint initially enacted peering requirements, I asked several UUnet employees whether they were planning to do the same. The answer was without exception that UUnet pursues peering with all technically qualified providers at all exchange points, because that results in the best connectivity for UUnet customers. At about that time, there was a UUnet ad in the print media that featured a never-completed freeway on-ramp to I-95 in Baltimore. As I was driving north to Boston last Friday, I noted wryly that said ramp was being dismantled. ---Rob

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Re: GTE to acquire BBN
by Kenneth E. Gray 07 May '97

07 May '97

They ate the whole thing.... At 02:56 PM 5/6/97 -0400, Eric D. Madison wrote: > >That's very true, GTE is very lacking in customer service, but not as bad >as some of the RBOC's. GTE used to be a good phone company, I know, I >used to work for them, but since they have started contracting out all of >it's outside plant operations they have really went down hill. GTE buying >some large NSP shouldn't come to any surprise to anyone though. GTE is >still the largest LEC in the US (barring the NYNEX/Bell Atlantic merger). >Eventually all the large NSP's will be bought by a facilities based >carrier, it is the only economical way to offer service and be >competitive. > Don't be surprised if some other large NSP's get acquired in the near >future. Free enterprise is and always has been based on the motto, "If >you can't compete with a company, buy it." It's the same thing that has >been happening in the Software/Hardware world. > > >One question though, did GTE acquire BBN totally, or just Planet/Saturn? >BBN is mainly research, BBN Planet and BBN Saturn is just part of the BBN >company as a whole. > > >Eric > > >_______________________________________________________ > Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer - > ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group > 24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc(a)acsi.net > > >On Tue, 6 May 1997, Chris Steinke wrote: > >> As a long time customer of GTE for both personal and >> business services I really feel sorry for BBN and it's customers. >> Hopefully BBN will not let GTE get too involved with BBN's operations. >> GTE has got to be the worst telco in the world. Their service is horrific, >> their billing is a mess, and I have serious doubts about the competence >> of their technicians. I can't tell you how many times they have screwed up >> a simple frame relay installation or even plain old telephone services! There >> completely clueless! >> >> >> -- >> Chris Steinke >> Systems Engineer >> Cinenet Communications >> ____/| cjs(a)cinenet.net >> \o.0 | Oop ACK Ptpthptpt >> =(_)= >> U >> > > > Ken Gray || || ISP Systems Engineer || || Reston, Virginia USA |||| |||| tel: +1.703.397.5942 ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. e-mail: kegray(a)cisco.com c i s c o S y s t e m s fax: +1.703.397.5999

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IAHC Issues
by Matthew E. Pearson 07 May '97

07 May '97

Ok, odds are in some form or another we will be stuck with the IAHC system, sure maybe a few of the new gTLDs may change name to appease our non-English speaking friends. But I think the structure will remain. Instead of whining and griping about something that is more than likely too late to change, why don't we focus on helping implement this insane system in the MOST sane way possible instead of being counter productive. It is easier to tear an idea down that it is to build one into a reality. Me ------------------------------------------------- Matthew E. Pearson Vice President of Development Games-Online Inc. http://www.games-online.com

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UUNET transit - Pricing
by Kortegast, Ann 06 May '97

06 May '97

Does anyone know how UUNET is pricing their transit service ? Are there any rates published ? Ann Kortegast

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GTE to acquire BBN
by John Curran 06 May '97

06 May '97

FYI, /John === FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For Information Contact: Peter W. Thonis BBN Corporation (617) 873-3512 pthonis(a)bbn.com GTE TO ACQUIRE BBN; BBN ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER FISCAL YEAR 1997 RESULTS Cambridge, Mass., May 6, 1997 --- BBN Corporation (NYSE:BBN) today said that GTE Corp. (NYSE: GTE) has agreed to acquire BBN in a transaction valued at approximately $616 million. Under the terms of the transaction, GTE will shortly commence a cash tender offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of BBN common stock at a price of $29 per share. BBN also reported third quarter revenue of $95.9 million, a 58 percent increase from $60.8 million in the third quarter of a year ago. Revenue for the nine month period ended March 31, 1997 was $254.1 million, an increase of 53 percent over $165.6 million for the nine months ended March 31, 1996. The revenue growth in the third quarter ended March 31, 1997 reflects continued significant growth in BBN Planet, BBNís Internet services division. BBN Planet had third quarter revenue of $48.2 million, a 134 percent increase over revenue of $20.6 million for the comparable quarter ended March 31, 1996 and a 23 percent sequential increase over $39.2 million in the quarter ended December 31, 1996. America Online-related revenue was $23.2 million, representing 48 percent of BBN Planet revenue. Revenue from BBN Planetís value-added services, which include web hosting, managed security, consulting and systems integration services, grew by approximately 18 percent sequentially over the prev

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