Luke

Heard something today about this... Was it "Worldcom" that has gone or going bust????? If so what chance does "Pipex" have???

suba

pipex is NOT part of worldcom, so you are OK . pipex get their feed from uunet which is part of worldcom.

P1Fanatic

Suba - your are incorrect. UUNET is no more since mid last year. Their Parent company WorldCom merged them. UUNET did own Pipex but sold it off as a seperate entity, hence the support is a totally diff company even though you can get to Pipex Support from the WorldCom (former UUNET) support line menu. However Pipex still uses the UUNET network for Dial at least and would assume the same for ADSL - do a trace and see if you traverse routers with uk.uu.net or alter.net suffixes.

How do I know this? Cos I work for WorldCom (for know anyways).

Simon.

suba

ok simon .

P1Fanatic

And just in case your worried its not as bad as the press make out. Can't say too much as I still value my job.

Simon.

suba

worldcom will survive. they are BIG especially with the merger with MCI years ago. so no worries for pipex users .

btw, .ac.uk and .gov.uk just switch to them from KPNQwest.

ChrisB

".ac.uk"

Does WorldCOM run the JANET setup then? I thought it was all private?

ChrisB

I'll shut up now...

http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/awareness/teleglobe.html

Taxi!

P1Fanatic

Yep WorldCom recently took over JANET's main link when KPNQWest went under. This is one of (if not the) fastest networks in the UK/EMEA. WorldCom already provide PoP space for one of their UK hubs with several STM16 connections (2.4Gbit).

DazV

Someone told me WorldComm carry up to 50% of the United States internet traffic.

P1Fanatic

DazV I wouldnt think it would even be close to that if (as your post suggests) you mean all US traffic coming from the UK.

suba

make that about 50% of the world's internet traffic!!!