On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 08:58:35PM -0400, Smitty wrote:
> Here is a quote out of the 1 July 2002 issue of informationweek from page 24:
> "70% of E-mail in the United States and more than half of worldwide E-mail
> travels over WorldCom's Internet backbone, the largest in the world. If
> WorldCom were to shut its doors --an unlikely event--the Internet could
> crash."
> For some reason, I don't think this infrastructure is going to get tossed
> aside in a backruptcy proceeding. But, it is interesting that they dominate
> the internet.
> Smitty
Yeah, who _wouldn't_ be interested in owning that backbone? But even so,
this is part of why ISPs typically have more than one route to the
internet.
Paul
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