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Carrier	Comment	AS Number	Network Map	Route Miles	Monitoring NOC	History	Peering Policy	Blocking Policy	IPv6
360Net	Privately Held		Network Map	16,000	Denver	1987: Started 2000: Went Public, 2001: Protection from creditors 2002: Emerged from protection 2003: Acquired GT Canada Aquired Dynegy Aquired Touch America 2004: Aquired Corban Comm 2004: Sold GT Canada to Bell Canada			nra 012308
AOL Data Transit Network			Network Map				Peering
AT&T		(AS7108)				Acquired by SBC and renamed AT&T
Bell Canada						2004: Aquired GT Canada from 360Net

Comcast
Cogent Communications						Acquired Fiber Network Solution PSINET
Electric Lightwave
ENRON[B]
Epoch
E.spire Communications
Global Crossing [B]		(AS3549)
Global Internet Exchange
ICG Communications
InfoNet
Level3		(AS3356)				Acquired: Genuity Broadwing 2006
Lightning Internet Services
McLeod Communications
MFN	(acquired Abovenet)
Netaxs Internet Services
NTT Verio		(AS2914)
One Call
Optigate
Qwest		(AS209)
Savvis
Servint
Sprint	(acquired by Nextel)	(AS1239)
Teleglobe
Time Warner Telecom	(see AOLTW)
Verizon	Formerly WorldCom / UUNet[B]	(AS701)
Williams[B]
Winstar [B]
XO [B]	(was Nextlink)

Other

Chunghwa Telecom

COLT Telecom

DACOM

Ebone

Embratel

Energis

France Telecom

Impsat

Internet Initiative Japan

Jippii

KPNQwest

NTT Communications

Primus Telecommunications

Priority Telecom

Reach

Swisscom

Telecom Argentina

Telefónica Data

Telenor

Telia

Verestar

Books
Big Blues : The Unmaking Of IBM by Paul Carroll [ Amazon ] The e-Bay Phenomenon: Business Secrets Behind the World's Hottest Internet Company by David Bunnell, Richard Luecke (Contributor) [ Amazon ]	WIP Books

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