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Re: Interconnects at NANOG


From: Jeffrey Burgan <jburgan () BayNetworks com>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 22:15:23 -0500


 > I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to th
e MAE
 > being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined
 by
 > Andrew Partan of UUNET.

I had thought that MAE was the acronym MFS used to descibe the service
which provided a virtual ethernet over the MFS fiber infrastructure.
 
      I think I told John Hardie a couple years back (when MAE-East) went
      to FDDI) that we could still use MAE as Metro Area Exchange.

I guess the "A" could also stand for ATM ;-)

Jeff


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