[50493] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE ATM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Jul 31 01:04:12 2002
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:03:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: Scott Granados <scott@graphidelix.net>
Cc: <bmanning@karoshi.com>, <nanog@missnglnk.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207302157030.4427-100000@penguin.graphidelix.net>
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> How did people interconnect before may 1998, fddi?
The MAE, later MAE-East, began as FOIRL, which was 10mbps Ethernet over
fiber. Later it was upgraded to a shared FDDI ring with Ethernet attached
segments; later still, a mix of switched FDDI and switched 100Base-T and
GigE. The FDDI portion was turned off last summer, about a year ago now,
and what remains is a mix of GigE, OC-48 links, and a little bit of
remaining 100Base-T. But mostly, it's fallen into disuse relative to
Equinix Ashburn and PAIX-VA.
-Bill
