the relationship between mci and bbn is one of peering. bbn is no longer a transit customer of internetMCI. we peer with them directly in multiple locations. i can't speak with authority about the relationship between bbn and at&t. i understood that it was one of provider/reseller.
Jeff Young young@mci.net
As an ISP, BBN may be peering with MCI(the ISP), but I too had the Understanding that Some of BBN's fiber was leased from MCI(the telco?). Anyone else with insight ? Russ __________________________________________________________________ Russ Haynal - Internet Consultant, Instructor, Speaker "Helping organizations gain the most benefit from the Internet" russ@navigators.com http://www.navigators.com 703-729-1757 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Author:"Internet; A Knowledge Odyssey" (Top-rated CD-ROM Tutorial) Available from MindQ Publishing: http://www.mindq.com
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Russ Haynal wrote:
As an ISP, BBN may be peering with MCI(the ISP), but I too had the Understanding that Some of BBN's fiber was leased from MCI(the telco?). Anyone else with insight ?
I think the day is long gone when any meaningful insight can be gained by looking at this kind of thing. It is entirely possible that SprintLink is leasing MCI T3's and InternetMCI is leasing Sprint T3's and that both of the T3's are running in the same fibre bundle owned by Worldcom. The three layers, IP services, digital data service, and dark fiber, are getting rather intertwingled and this doesn't even take into account usage of frame networks or ATM networks. I'm not implying anything specific by naming the three companies above, just that it is not very easy to find out where a particular IP provider gets their service and it is hard to extrapolate anything useful from that information if you did know it. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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