It's been announced today that the sale of Exodus to C&W has been
completed, after approval by the courts and regulatory agencies.
Executive summary is that Exodus will run as a separate business unit,
with all C&W and Digital Island hosting coming under the Exodus name with
the C&W "globe" logo. Full details at:
http://www.exodus.net/about_exodus/press_room/press_releases/20020201_01.html
The only question that remains in my mind, as an Exodus customer, is "will
they merge the IP networks?" And I sure hope the answer is no 
Tim
The only question that remains in my mind, as an Exodus customer, is "will
they merge the IP networks?" And I sure hope the answer is no
I'd think that one of the reasons that they merged was to experience an
economy of scale; I'd bet they will be merged. Perhaps not immediately,
but soon enough.
-- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben --
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.. and will they force Exodus to de-peer with everyone
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> http://www.exodus.net/about_exodus/press_room/press_releases/2
0020201_01.html
>
> The only question that remains in my mind, as an Exodus customer, is
"will
> they merge the IP networks?" And I sure hope the answer is no
.. and will they force Exodus to de-peer with everyone
They've already significantly reduced their peering in Australia, in
two phases - first they closed down AUSIX (since they were closing
down one of their IDCs which had it in there), then they stopped peering
their US content with their Australian peers (and I'd expect they also
stopped peering their Australian content with their US peers). It was
all so good while it lasted...
I'm still wondering about the other IDCs. 26 of 44 have been sold, and
the brand name with them it would appear. Some of the others (at least
the remaining 2 of the original 3 Australian ones - one of the
Australian
ones was shut down a while ago) are still operating under the Exodus
name and aren't mentioned anywhere in the sale agreement. One of the
two remaining Australian ones used to be very profitable before Exodus
bought it, and I believe it remained profitable after they bought it.
Although it has lost it's largest customer (and possibly the most
prominent content provider in Australia) since the chapter 11.
Reading more from http://www.exodus.net/special/, 14 of their IDCs
(4 international, 10 domestic) have been closed. That still leaves
4 with their future in doubt (although it doesn't list the third
Australian IDC as closed - so perhaps only 3 in doubt, the two
remaining Australian ones and one other, somewhere?)
David.
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 21:46:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stephen J. Wilcox <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
[ slight snip ]
> Executive summary is that Exodus will run as a separate business unit,
[ slight snip ]
> The only question that remains in my mind, as an Exodus
> customer, is "will they merge the IP networks?" And I sure
> hope the answer is no
.. and will they force Exodus to de-peer with everyone
Something about which I also wondered. But how would that fit in
with the "must be run as a separate business unit" provision?
Sort of like Digex and WCom...
Eddy
Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division
Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national
Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence
> > Executive summary is that Exodus will run as a separate business unit,
> > The only question that remains in my mind, as an Exodus
> > customer, is "will they merge the IP networks?" And I sure
> > hope the answer is no
>
> .. and will they force Exodus to de-peer with everyone
Something about which I also wondered. But how would that fit in
with the "must be run as a separate business unit" provision?
Sort of like Digex and WCom...
But that presumably doesnt exclude exodus adopting policies that happen to
be the same as C&W such as depeering, they've done it fairly quickly with
other acquisitions..
Wonder if C&W chiefs are aware that to class yourself as an Internet
provider you have to be connected to the rest of it!?
Steve
More than well aware, I'm sure. As an added bonus, given their
experience in the telco/facilities arena, I believe C&W realizes the
importance of maintaining uninterruptible power and HVAC. 
-a