Port numbers and traffic data

[Ian Batten]

On 20 Apr 2008, at 22:23, Roland Perry wrote:

> In article <7615E116-FADB-4391-9887-333429651D01@batten.eu.org>, Ian  
> Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>> It's  Easynet, I think, who have the canalside fibres that were  
>> laid by Fibrenet and then ended up in the hands of Marconi.
>
> It was Fibreway

But it was an arm of Fibrenet, I'm pretty sure.  I bought one of  
Fibrenet's rack-mount 10BaseT switches, and recall having a pitch from  
their MD at a show somewhere.

> , and the Marconi division was called Ipsaris. It all came together  
> just as the Dotcom bubble burst and LLU ground to a halt. Rollout  
> has got going again in the last two years. And Easynet's now owned  
> by Sky of course, at a price of less than half its valuation when it  
> merged with Marconi.

Half?  Most of Marconi's purchases from that period ended up worthless.

Mr Marconi used to go to the party, and finding the pretty girl that  
everyone fancied snogging with the host, Marconi instead lavished all  
his money on taking the ugly girl that no-one would dance with out for  
dinner.   Fore?  Even if ATM had a future as low-end play, which it  
didn't, that future wasn't with a high costbase specialist vendor.   
Reltec?  Had anyone, ever, thought ``no, before I buy a Cisco, I'll  
just phone up my Reltec account manager?''

We employed the two guys, one product management, one technical  
architect, who used System X to pretty much keep Nortel out of the UK  
market for fifteen years.  They were heartbroken at the way in which  
Weinstock's cash mountain was converted into a pile of beans.

ian