Slashdot Mirror
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.
Can someone translate that into say GMT for us? Not many people are gonna know what CET stands for.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I'm US and I'm here!
I dunno, I think there should be a government bailout of something like this.
Actually, I think in the US, everybody should be given the option for a cable modem for say $40/month and if that generates losses, the government should subsidize it. imho.
This is true, the latest Netcraft surveys confirmed it : the Internet is dying.
Let's have a look at some numbers. According to TCP/IP's leader Richard Stevens, ehm... nothing.
How many devices connected to the Internet do I have in my toilets? Zero. This is coherent with the number of posts on Usenet whoose title is "How to upgrade my toilets to IPv6"
{{.sig}}
I'd rather see them on Celebrity Boxing. Or maybe not. They'd both be pretty boring in the ring, given their current state.
That is all.