[38612] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Tiers and other sales speak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrows, Jeff)
Fri Jun 8 10:36:58 2001
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From: "Barrows, Jeff" <jsb@aleron.com>
To: jlewis@jasonlewis.net, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:33:29 -0400
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Jason Lewis [mailto:jlewis@jasonlewis.net] wrote:
>
> Someone from MAE-Dulles called me and said they were a 2nd
> generation MAE. What in the world is that?
>
> TAG changed their name to MAE-Dulles. My guess is to try to
> make people think they were somehow related to MAE-East.
>
> No mention of tier at all....it's a new "generation".
>
> jas
These guys seem to be trying to leverage the MAE "brand"
for their own benefit, while trying to trash the existing
MAEs at the same time for their own good.
They sell transit. They buy from the people that they
show as being present at their "MAE." I suspect that you
can indeed inter-connect with other entities at their
facilities-- through their /layer three routers./
This page has to be the most humorous:
http://www.maedulles.net/topology.htm
...with this bit about their constraint-based BGP-4 being my
favorite:
"Advanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) directs traffic
from its point of origin to the core class router of the
least congested backbone, bypassing the congested public
peering points and virtually eliminating latency and
packet loss.
"
I can't wait for the "White Papers" link to become active.
I'm guessing they didn't get permission to use the MAE
acronym, [which presumably is trademarked] or the likeness
of Dulles Airport in their logo.
When they spoke of the "new generation," did they mention
generation d?
- jsb
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Jeff Barrows
SVP, Global Networks
Aleron Internet
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