[1388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects at NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Burgan)
Wed Jan 3 22:23:06 1996
From: Jeffrey Burgan <jburgan@BayNetworks.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Cc: loco@mfsdatanet.com (Jonathan Heiliger), dsiegel@rtd.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 18:27:32 PST."
<199601040227.AA23158@zephyr.isi.edu>
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
