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EBone/KPNQwest Network Shutting Down
reginald.barclay writes "As KPNQwest has filed for bankruptcy some time ago, also EBone, which they aquired some months ago, goes down the drain. Together, these two companies carried betwenn 1/3 and 1/2 of European IP Traffic (and, in the case of KPNQwest, an unknown portion of voice). Employees at Ebone were laid off last week and told to abandon their NOC. But instead of getting drunk and over with it, they occupied their former workplace. Now even their time is running out, and one of Europes oldest backbone carriers will probably be shut down today, at 1700 CET. I wonder how many of their customers (mostly ISPs and VBCs themselves) have managed to run to the competition in time. Nevertheless, I expect the routing in large parts of Europe to be very interesting (in the chinese sense, of course) over the coming weekend and early next week." Update: 06/14 18:02 GMT by M : Apparently KPNQwest's creditors have agreed to pay to keep the place going until the end of June.
So they're EBoned then?
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Yes - This is all part of a conspiracy. The government have realised that their new RIP bill powers will have no impact on terrorist communications, so they have pursuaded EBone/KPNQwest to go banctupt as an excuse to shut down the internet completely in the UK tonight. There will probably be something about it on about page 16 or tommorrows guardian.
Or maybe they're frantically emailing out their resumes before the T1 dies.
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The internet is coming off its "high" from the late 90's, and is in the hangover stage. It will get over the hangover, swear off alc^M^M^M unrealistic spending on stupid ideas, and return to existance as a much more healthy mature Internet.
The bubble burst, and is coming back down to where it should be.
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Of course they don't care. Everyone uses BIND, right?
PHB: That's it, money gone, shut down the ebone.
NETOP: Right on cap'n, shutting down ebone now...
PHB: Thank you.
NETOP: Slight problem, the guy that knows the router config to stop it working left, he was made redundant last week.
PHB: Ah, can't we just switch them off?
NETOP: No can do cap'n, no remote power off for security reasons.
PHB: So we need somebody to go out to site and switch all the routers off?
NETOP: That's what i'm telling you captain. These CISCO's just work so well, and without the guy who knows how to configure them to stop working we can't shut the network down.
PHB: OK, how many sites is that?
NETOP: About 23,239
PHB: Ok, get onto field maintenance.
NETOP: Slight problem, they were all made redundant last week.
PHB: Anyone fancy a pint?
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The Ebone network hasn't been shut down. I'm a pround Ebone customer, and our network is properly wor
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