CyberWire report -- vbns

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 94 01:54 EST
From: Phill Gross <0006423401@mcimail.com>


Dave,


Just for the record, let me point out that the MCI IP
service, called internetMCI, does not piggyback off the
vBNS, as Meeks suggests below.


The MCI IP net (which is up and operational today) will not
even be connected to the vBNS except via the NAP's.  (Note-
the vBNS is still in the process of being built; it's a
totally separate project.)


Thanks,
Phill


> > CyberWire Dispatch // Copyright (c) 1994 //
> >
> > Jacking in from the "Me Too" Port:
> > ...
> > MCI will provide Internet access through its own homegrown network.
> > Although details of MCI's Internet access network aren't yet known, it's
> > likely that MCI will piggy-back this commercial access on top of the high
> > speed computer network it built specifically to service the nation's
> > supercomputer centers. That high speed network, by the way, is something
> > you're paying for with tax dollars, all $50-plus million of them.